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Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the story of a 31-year-old African American woman who was treated for an aggressive form of cervical cancer in 1951 which she died of a year later.

While performing her first radiation treatment, the doctors also took a sample of her cancerous cells which became the first human “immortal cells” known as “HeLa” which were a key part of the advancement of many medical treatments including chemotherapy and the polio vaccine.

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Skloot begins the book by talking about Henrietta’s childhood and life as a young adult, where she lived in impoverished circumstances and was obviously not able to receive convenient and consistent medical treatment. At the time, Johns Hopkins was one of the only hospitals in the Baltimore area that had a “colored” wing where they would treat black patients.

The morality of the doctor’s treatment of Lacks is heavily scrutinized, as no informed consent was given by Lacks.

From a legal standpoint, the doctors re