
Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh
Documentary
Overview
In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since. There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age.
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Fred Garrett
Fred Garrett
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Fred Garrett
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George Gey
George Gey
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George Gey
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Howard Jones
Howard Jones
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Howard Jones
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Mary Kubicek
Mary Kubicek
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Mary Kubicek
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Deborah Lacks Pullum
Deborah Lacks Pullum
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Deborah Lacks Pullum
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Walter Nelson-Rees
Walter Nelson-Rees
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Walter Nelson-Rees
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Roland Pattillo
Roland Pattillo
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Roland Pattillo
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Roland Pattillo
Roland Pattillo
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Roland Pattillo
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Sadie Sturdivant
Sadie Sturdivant
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Sadie Sturdivant
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Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis
Narrator
Adam Curtis
Narrator
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