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How Medical Science Built Itself on Black Women's Bodies Revealed
How Medical Science Built Itself on Black Women's Bodies Revealed
A chill of injustice runs through the history of medicine: tissue taken without consent, bodies exhibited in museums, and surgeries performed in daylight produced the very knowledge we now call progress. How did exhibitions in Paris and operating rooms in the American South set the stage for Henrietta Lacks’ cells to be taken, copied, and commodified without her knowledge?
In this episode, we trace the documented chain of three cases and three sets of women whose bodies and remains supplied material, publications, and medical…
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