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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Of the 40+ books I read in 2012, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has probably been my favorite. In the 1950s doctors took cells from a thirty-one year old African-American woman dying from cervical cancer, without her consent or her family’s … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, biomedical ethics, book reviews, nonfiction, poverty, science writing
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