Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh
6.0Mar 19, 19970h 59mDocumentary
Directed by Adam Curtis
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
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George Gey
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Howard Jones
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Mary Kubicek
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Deborah Lacks Pullum
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Walter Nelson-Rees
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Roland Pattillo
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Sadie Sturdivant
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Adam Curtis
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