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What Does the Historic Settlement Won by Henrietta Lacks’s Family Mean for Others?

'In the Lacks case, the family’s lawyers argued that doctors’ failure to ask her permission to use her cancer cells reflected deep-seated racism then pervasive in human research. “The racial inequity which was so eloquently argued in the complaint … really I think carried the day,” Andrews says.'

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https://www.science.org/content/article/what-does-historic-settlement-won-henrietta-lacks-s-family-mean-others