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Medical Ethics
2 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Rebecca Skloot: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rebecca Skloot — how to approach The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, her essential work of science and human story. A complete reading guide.
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Books Like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Science, Race, and the Body as Property
Rebecca Skloot's account of HeLa cells — taken without consent from Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman who died of cancer in 1951, and used in medical research for decades — is the best science book written for general readers and the most important book about medical ethics in recent memory.
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