| I'm classifying this as "History," though it's shelved in the 616s (medicine), I believe. It tells the sad story of Henrietta Lacks, the doctors and scientists who studied her and treated her, and the discoveries and profits that were made as a result of her cells; her family didn't find out for almost twenty years, and sought to understand both what and why her life had ended as it did, and also to hear acknowledgement of their mother/niece/cousin/granddaughter's contribution to medicine and science in the twenty-first century.
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