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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: It's the history of the first lab-grown human cells, _kind of_ stolen (it was normal at the times) from a black woman who
by a_bonobo 14y ago
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks:
It's the history of the first lab-grown human cells, _kind of_ stolen (it was normal at the times) from a black woman who died from cancer, her family had never really heard or learned what the science was actually about - very cool insights into bioethics and how modern science/medicine came about.
http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Henrietta-Lacks-Thorndike-Nonfiction/dp/1410427927 http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Henrietta-Lacks-Thorndike-Non...