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Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh (1997)

Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh (1997)

Documentary
Release Date: 1997, March 19
Directors: Adam Curtis
Countries: United Kingdom
Cast: Howard Jones, Fred Garrett, George Gey, Mary Kubicek, Deborah Lacks Pullum, Walter Nelson-Rees, Roland Pattillo, Sadie Sturdivant

Overview:

In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since. There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age.

Keywords:

racism ethics medical research medicine medical breakthrough professional ethics