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Excerpt from Dec. 16, 2012 post at BlackPastBlog.org:
Henrietta Lacks. She was living just an ordinary life when the seemingly
ordinary event of illness had extraordinary results that would forever
change science and cancer research.
Dr. Clarence Spigner has written a powerful essay for BlackPast.org entitled Henrietta Lacks and the Debate Over Ethics in Bio-medical Research.
Dr. Spigner's essay provides an overview of Mrs. Lacks' life, the
treatment of her cancer, and the subsequent cancer research based on the
cancerous cells taken from her body at the time of diagnosis. The
importance of her cancerous cells became apparent when, unlike other
failed attempts at propagating cells for research, her cells (called
HeLa cells) not only lived, but self-propagated at an extraordinary
rate. The journalist Rebecca Skloot's work "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a riveting story of
the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific
discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions
about the mother she never knew." (excerpted from the website of Rebecca Skloot, referenced above).
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