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1 day ago · The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Oprah Winfrey stars in this HBO film about Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were used for groundbreaking medical research without her consent.
12 hours ago · #TheImmortalLifeofHenriettaLacks #ImmortalLifeofHenriettaLacks #Audiobook The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: A Deep Dive into Ethics, Science, and Hum...
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1 day ago · Henrietta Lacks: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks explores the story of a woman whose cells, taken without her knowledge, led to numerous medical breakthroughs. Her cells, known as HeLa, became vital for research in cancer, AIDS, and various genetic diseases.
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2 days ago · The HeLa cells only became controversial in the US following publication, in 2011, of science writer Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The book detailed the story of Henrietta Lacks and the legacy of her cells, becoming a New York Times number one bestseller.
4 days ago · The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is the story of an African American woman and her family that touches on many big issues: bioethics, racism, poverty, science, faith, and more.
2 days ago · The medical experimentation on communities of color, often for pharmaceutical profit, throughout the 20 th century is most emblematically illustrated by the story of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot 2011), and scholars like Kim TallBear (2013) continue to highlight how genetic attempts to qualify and quantify race only serve to further scientific racism.
