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“I could not put the book down...Through Lacks, the story of modern medicine and bioethics — and, indeed, race relations — is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”
—Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

June 21, 2010

Guardian Podcast: Rebecca Skloot Discusses The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

On Science Weekly: The ‘immortal’ Henrietta Lacks. Alok Jha talks to Rebecca Skloot about the intriguing story of Henrietta Lacks and why she has been so important to medical science. Listen here.

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Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.

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