The HeLa Cell Line

Date
March 18, 2011

Speaker
Matt Brehmer

Abstract
The HeLa cancer cell line has contributed to countless medical and scientific discoveries over the past 60 years, but at what cost? This talk will touch on medical ethics, unprecedented legal cases, race relations, media sensationalism, con artists, tobacco farming, capitalism, opportunism, and the poor African-American Baltimore family at the centre of it all.