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Lessons Learned
by Kandy Noles Stevens
This podcast is dedicated to helping my students be successful in my courses.
Episodes
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The Woman in the Photograph
In this episode, we learn about Henrietta lacks and how the author came to learn of her existence. We also read about the author's relationship to the Lacks family and are introduced to the struggles the family faced when first learning about HeLa cells.
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A Few Words About this Book
In this podcast, we read the introduction A Few Words About this Book which introduces readers to the way the author structured the book and how the book's content came to be.
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Chapter 20 - The HeLa Bomb
This episode explores when scientists first discovered how easily HeLa contamination could happen and its implications for scientific research.
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Chapter 19 - The Most Critical Time on this Earth is Now
In this episode, we continue to learn about Henrietta's children as they grow older.
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Chapter 18 - Strangest Hybrid
This episode covers many of the advances made by cell culturists and the uneasy feelings among the general public.
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Chapter 17 - Illegal, Immoral, & Deplorable
In this chapter, we learn of the horrific history which led to the evolution of informed consent in medical research.
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Chapter 16 - Spending Eternity in the Same Place
We learn more history of Lacks Town as well as that of the Lacks and Pleasant families.
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Chapter 15 - Too Young to Remember
We learn of Deborah's growing up years and her longing to know more about her mother.
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Chapter 14 - Helen Lane
In this episode, we learn of the first efforts, intentional and unintentional, to keep Henrietta's name hidden from its association with the HeLa cells.
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Chapter 13 - The HeLa Factory
In this episode we read about the history behind mass producing HeLa cells.
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Chapter 12 - The Storm
This episode marks the beginning of Part 2 - Death of the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. In this episode we read about Henrietta's burial and the interesting weather which coincided with it.
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Chapter 11 - The Devil of Pain Itself
In this chapter, we learn of Henrietta's last days.
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Chapter 10 - The Other Side of the Tracks
In this episode, the author makes her way to Clover and eventually to Lacks Town to learn more about where Henrietta grew up.
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Chapter 9 - Turner Station
In this episode, the author finds her way to Turner Station to learn more about Henrietta's life and with hopes to speak to her family.
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Chapter 8 - "A Miserable Specimen"
We learn of Henrietta's last days of life and her potential meeting with the creator of the immortal HeLa cells.
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Chapter 7 - The Death and Life of Cell Culture
In this episode, we learn about the first publicized reports of cell tissue culture. The concept of eugenics is introduced in this chapter.
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Chapter 6 - "Lady's on the Phone"
In this episode, the author Rebecca Skloot tells the tale of first meeting Henrietta's youngest daughter, Deborah.
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Chapter 5 - Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside
In this episode, Henrietta reveals to her family the cancer treatments she has be undergoing.
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Chapter 4 - The Birth of HeLa
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Chapter 3
In this episode, we continue with the story of Henrietta Lacks and what becomes the origin of the famous HeLa cells.
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Chapter 1 (ending) & Chapter 2
There was a computer malfunction in the previous episode. We re-read a couple of paragraphs to finish Chapter 1 and continue with Chapter 2 of the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
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Chapter 1 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
In this chapter we read more about the story of Henrietta Lacks.
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This podcast is dedicated to helping my students be successful in my courses.
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Lessons Learned is created and hosted by Kandy Noles Stevens.
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