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How Henrietta, Sarah and the Science That Stole Their Bodies
How Henrietta, Sarah and the Science That Stole Their Bodies
The same scientific breakthroughs that cured polio and mapped genes were built on tissue taken without consent; a single cervical biopsy in 1951 produced cells that still replicate today - and this episode traces how that act fit into a two-century chain of practices that treated Black bodies as sources of material, not persons. How did exhibitions, dissections, and medical routines converge to make extraction seem like science rather than theft?
In this episode, we tell the story of two women and the institutional history that…
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