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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “The Way of All Flesh.”

51. “The Way of All Flesh.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “Science is an inherently optimistic enterprise, the working assumption being that nature is comprehensible.”

52. “Science is an inherently optimistic enterprise, the working assumption being that nature is comprehensible.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “Science is an inherently optimistic enterprise, the working assumption being that nature is comprehensible; mysteries can be solved; we can make things better.”

53. “Science is an inherently optimistic enterprise, the working assumption being that nature is comprehensible; mysteries can be solved; we can make things better.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn’t get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren’t a lot of profits.”

54. “For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn’t get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren’t a lot of profits.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “As in all good training, in the end it doesn’t much matter who trained whom; we all got what we wanted.”

55. “As in all good training, in the end it doesn’t much matter who trained whom; we all got what we wanted.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “Baltimore, looking at a genetics textbook. Her.”

56. “Baltimore, looking at a genetics textbook. Her.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “The tribunal set forth a ten-point code of ethics now known as the Nuremberg Code, which was to govern all human experimentation worldwide. The first line in that code says, “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.”

57. “The tribunal set forth a ten-point code of ethics now known as the Nuremberg Code, which was to govern all human experimentation worldwide. The first line in that code says, “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you’re working on it – and I think writing is the same way.”

58. “Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you’re working on it – and I think writing is the same way.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “She demanded to know if anyone ever tried to teach her sister sign language. No one had.”

59. “She demanded to know if anyone ever tried to teach her sister sign language. No one had.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “The fundamental problem here isn’t the money; it’s the notion that the people these tissues come from don’t matter.”

60. “The fundamental problem here isn’t the money; it’s the notion that the people these tissues come from don’t matter.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “Some of the stories were conjured by white plantation owners taking advantage of the long-held African belief that ghosts caused disease and death. To discourage slaves from meeting or escaping, slave owners told tales of gruesome research done on black bodies, then covered themselves in white sheets and crept around at night, posing as spirits coming to infect black people with disease or steal them for research. Those sheets eventually gave rise to the white hooded cloaks of the Ku Klux Klan.”

61. “Some of the stories were conjured by white plantation owners taking advantage of the long-held African belief that ghosts caused disease and death. To discourage slaves from meeting or escaping, slave owners told tales of gruesome research done on black bodies, then covered themselves in white sheets and crept around at night, posing as spirits coming to infect black people with disease or steal them for research. Those sheets eventually gave rise to the white hooded cloaks of the Ku Klux Klan.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “A physician violates his duty to his patient and subjects himself to liability if he withholds any facts which are necessary to form the basis of an intelligent consent by the patient to the proposed treatment.” He wrote that there needed to be “full disclosure of facts necessary to an informed consent.”

62. “A physician violates his duty to his patient and subjects himself to liability if he withholds any facts which are necessary to form the basis of an intelligent consent by the patient to the proposed treatment.” He wrote that there needed to be “full disclosure of facts necessary to an informed consent.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “People sometimes spend thousands of dollars treating fish they won at the fair or bought for less than $5. Because they love them.”

63. “People sometimes spend thousands of dollars treating fish they won at the fair or bought for less than $5. Because they love them.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “In 2012 researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute showed that two hours of exposure to a bright tablet screen at night, like an iPad or a Kindle, reduced melatonin levels by 22 percent.”

64. “In 2012 researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute showed that two hours of exposure to a bright tablet screen at night, like an iPad or a Kindle, reduced melatonin levels by 22 percent.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “Nader’s data could not have been clearer, or more unsettling. He demonstrated that the very act of remembering something makes it vulnerable to change. Like a text recalled from a computer’s hard drive, each memory was subject to editing. First you have to search the computer for the the text and then bring it to the screen, at which point you can alter it and save it. Whether the changes are slight or extensive, the new document is never quite the same as the original.”

65. “Nader’s data could not have been clearer, or more unsettling. He demonstrated that the very act of remembering something makes it vulnerable to change. Like a text recalled from a computer’s hard drive, each memory was subject to editing. First you have to search the computer for the the text and then bring it to the screen, at which point you can alter it and save it. Whether the changes are slight or extensive, the new document is never quite the same as the original.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “When it came to growing viruses – as with many other things – the fact that HeLa was malignant just made it more useful.”

66. “When it came to growing viruses – as with many other things – the fact that HeLa was malignant just made it more useful.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “We have room to act and shape our stories – although as we get older, we do so within narrower and narrower confines.”

67. “We have room to act and shape our stories – although as we get older, we do so within narrower and narrower confines.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “1953 and moved into a house of his own – he had no idea what.”

68. “1953 and moved into a house of his own – he had no idea what.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. Many scientists believed that since patients were treated for free in the public wards, it was fair to use them as research subjects as a form of payment. And as Howard Jones once wrote, “Hopkins, with its large indigent black population, had no dearth of clinical material.”

69. “Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. Many scientists believed that since patients were treated for free in the public wards, it was fair to use them as research subjects as a form of payment. And as Howard Jones once wrote, “Hopkins, with its large indigent black population, had no dearth of clinical material.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “He told them he was testing their immune systems; he said nothing about injecting them with someone else’s malignant cells.”

70. “He told them he was testing their immune systems; he said nothing about injecting them with someone else’s malignant cells.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “I saw his broad head, with a dollop of hair on its crown, silhouetted by the stars and moon out the window behind him.”

71. “I saw his broad head, with a dollop of hair on its crown, silhouetted by the stars and moon out the window behind him.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “That there’s Henrietta’s mother,” he said, pointing to a lone tombstone near the cemetery’s edge, surrounded by trees and wild roses. It was several feet tall, its front worn rough and browned from age and weather.”

72. “That there’s Henrietta’s mother,” he said, pointing to a lone tombstone near the cemetery’s edge, surrounded by trees and wild roses. It was several feet tall, its front worn rough and browned from age and weather.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “I hereby give consent to the staff of The Johns Hopkins Hospital to perform any operative procedures and under any anaesthetic either local or general that they may deem necessary in the proper surgical care and treatment of:.”

73. “I hereby give consent to the staff of The Johns Hopkins Hospital to perform any operative procedures and under any anaesthetic either local or general that they may deem necessary in the proper surgical care and treatment of:.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “Reader’s Digest ran articles by Corell advising women that a husband should not be induced by an oversexed wife to perform a sexual act.”

74. “Reader’s Digest ran articles by Corell advising women that a husband should not be induced by an oversexed wife to perform a sexual act.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had to be approved by review boards – independent bodies made up of professionals and laypeople of diverse races, classes, and backgrounds – to ensure that they met the NIH’s ethics requirements, including detailed informed consent.”

75. “As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had to be approved by review boards – independent bodies made up of professionals and laypeople of diverse races, classes, and backgrounds – to ensure that they met the NIH’s ethics requirements, including detailed informed consent.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “And for several years the public has been sending samples by the millions to personalized DNA testing companies like 23andMe, which only provide customers with their personal medical or genealogical information if they first sign a form granting permission for their samples to be stored for future research.”

76. “And for several years the public has been sending samples by the millions to personalized DNA testing companies like 23andMe, which only provide customers with their personal medical or genealogical information if they first sign a form granting permission for their samples to be stored for future research.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “Her cells were part of research into the genes that cause cancer and those that suppress it; they helped develop drugs for treating herpes, leukemia, influenza, hemophilia, and Parkinson’s disease; and they’ve been used to study lactose digestion, sexually transmitted diseases, appendicitis, human longevity, mosquito mating, and the negative cellular effects of working in sewers.”

77. “Her cells were part of research into the genes that cause cancer and those that suppress it; they helped develop drugs for treating herpes, leukemia, influenza, hemophilia, and Parkinson’s disease; and they’ve been used to study lactose digestion, sexually transmitted diseases, appendicitis, human longevity, mosquito mating, and the negative cellular effects of working in sewers.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “Sadie told me years later. “We couldn’t help it. They played music that when you heard it just put your soul into it. We’d two-step across that floor, jiggle to some blues, then somebody maybe put a quarter in there and play a slow music song, and Lord we’d just get out there and shake and turn around and all like that!” She giggled like a young girl. “It was some beautiful times.”

78. “Sadie told me years later. “We couldn’t help it. They played music that when you heard it just put your soul into it. We’d two-step across that floor, jiggle to some blues, then somebody maybe put a quarter in there and play a slow music song, and Lord we’d just get out there and shake and turn around and all like that!” She giggled like a young girl. “It was some beautiful times.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “He specified that the only patients to be charged were those who could easily afford it, and that any money they brought in should then be spent treating those without money.”

79. “He specified that the only patients to be charged were those who could easily afford it, and that any money they brought in should then be spent treating those without money.”

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Rebecca Skloot Quote: “When you go to the doctor for a routine blood test or to have a mole removed, when you have an appendectomy, tonsillectomy, or any other kind of ectomy, the stuff you leave behind doesn’t always get thrown out. Doctors, hospitals, and laboratories keep it. Often indefinitely.”

80. “When you go to the doctor for a routine blood test or to have a mole removed, when you have an appendectomy, tonsillectomy, or any other kind of ectomy, the stuff you leave behind doesn’t always get thrown out. Doctors, hospitals, and laboratories keep it. Often indefinitely.”

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