Recommendation: Adam Curtis - The Way Of All Flesh (documentary)

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most here should be familiar with curtis' other essential documenatries.

while not essential, i found this one to be quite interesting.


Adam Curtis - The Way Of All Flesh

Follows the story of the cells of Henriettta Lacks. She dies in 1951 of cancer, before she died cells were removed from her body and cultivated in a laboratory in the hope that they could help find a cure for cancer. The cells (HeLa) have been growing ever since, and the scientists found that they were growing in ways they could not control.

Henrietta Lacks (August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) was an African–American woman who was the unwitting donor of cells from her cancerous tumor, which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create an immortal cell line for medical research. This is now known as the HeLa cell line.

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

VIDEO:

streaming:
_http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8448974573505946013#

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_http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtisTheWayofAllFlesh