across the ages

their possessions

none of it brought him true joy or peace

Derailing The Mommy Track : Women

she is still living 'under suspicion'

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Identity (Psychology) across the agesHenrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid century biology: human cells that could survive even thrive in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency