Henrietta Lacks: The Woman Who Became Immortal

In nineteen fifty-one, a poor young mother went to hospital with cancer, and a doctor took a sample of her tumour without telling her. She died months later and was buried in an unmarked grave. But her cells never died. They are alive today in labs all over the world, and helped build modern medicine — and for twenty years, her own family had no idea.

August Mercer tells the story of the stolen cells that changed the world, and the family left in the dark. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.

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