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‘So Many People Are Touched by the Story, You Just Want to Tell It’.
Henrietta Lacks was a poor black woman who died in from cervical cancer. Her cells, taken in several samples from her tumor, were used in research without her knowledge or consent to create the first “immortal” cell line.
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Known as HeLa, that cell line led to major medical advances including the development of the polio vaccine, and have survived into the present as part of a multimillion dollar industry of which her family was unaware for decades, and from which they never received compensation.
On February 21, David Lacks Jr., Henrietta&#;s grandson, and her daughter-in-law, Shirley Lacks, visited SPH as part of the Diversity and Inclusion Seminar Series.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot had been selected as this year’s SPH Reads book, to be read and discussed by students, faculty, and staff, and the conversation continued with this standing-room-only event.
The seminar was moderated by G