Between the Covers Book Club Presents
A discussion of "Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"
Tuesday, February 21
10:15am - 11:30am
Margate Catharine Young Branch
AuditoriumHenrietta Lacks story also illustrates the racial inequities that are embedded in the US research and health-care systems.
Henrietta Lacks' cells began what was the first, and, for many years, the only human cell line able to reproduce indefinitely. Much of what is known today in medicine owes its existence to those cells. They are used to study the effects of toxins, drugs, hormones, and viruses on the growth of cancer cells without experimenting on humans. Ms. Lack was black. None of the companies that profited from her cells gave any money back to her family. For decades after her death, doctors and scientists repeatedly failed to ask her family for consent as they revealed Lacks’ name publicly, gave her medical records to the media, and even published her cells’ genome online.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | In-person | Discussion/Lecture | Clubs & Groups | Books |
TAGS: | Black History Month |
Margate Catharine Young Branch
| Mon, Apr 27 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Tue, Apr 28 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Wed, Apr 29 | 12:00PM to 8:00PM |
| Thu, Apr 30 | 12:00PM to 8:00PM |
| Fri, May 01 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, May 02 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, May 03 | Closed |

