The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

This was a quick read and quite engaging. It's the story of some eternally replicating cancer cells harvested from a poor black woman called Henrietta Lacks who was dying of cancer. It raises interesting ethical questions about our ownership of our bodies,tissues, organs, cells. I don't think there are any easy answers. The children of Henrietta Lacks whose cells were used in cures for multiple diseases are poor and health insurance-less,  incapable of paying for any of the medicines or treatments that their mother's cells helped discover. But the author also questions what if those cells had come with informed consent, the red tape and complications of using them would have completely halted most of the research. Should her cells be like music with royalties paid each time someone plays a song? No easy answers but some good questions.