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Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, .... The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas reminded us that all of the victims of Babi Yar were individuals with a life and a story; Skloot's book reminds us that the same is true for all who participate in medical research. Very moving piece of history ...