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The Mother of Modern Medicine:
Henrietta Lacks and the Debate Over HeLa Cells


Henrietta Lacks. Ca. 1940. The National Geographic.

Mackenzie Bohr and Madison McNealey

Senior Division

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Word Count: 961

Process Paper: 453

Media: 2:09

Since the era when Henretta walked through the doors of Hopkins, the field of biomedical ethics was born, and with it came regulations about informed consent. 

-Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks