The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

would like some health insurance so I don’t got to pay all that money every month for drugs my mother cells probably helped make.”

When tissues are removed from your body, with or without your consent, any claim you might have had to owning them vanishes.

Gene patents are the point of greatest concern in the debate over ownership of human biological materials, and how that ownership might interfere with science. As

Pneumoencephalography

Many doctors tested drugs on slaves and operated on them to develop new surgical techniques, often without using anesthesia.

who tracked down every good novel she could find with a disjointed structure, all of which I devoured while trying to figure out the structure of this book.