This past weekend, jointly with the family, Johns Hopkins announced construction of a new bioethics research building, to be named for her. [Rebecca Skloot wrote lyrically of her life and death -- of cancer, in 1951.] And here nearly 70 years on, she will be immortalized in stone -- at the university hospital system that so enormously benefitted from her non-consented contribution to cell biology:
. . . .“This building will be a place that stands as an enduring and powerful testament to a woman who not only was the beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to generations of the Lacks family, but the genesis of generations of miraculous discoveries that have changed the landscape of modern medicine and that have benefited, in truth, the much larger family of humanity,” Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels said Saturday during the university’s ninth annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial lecture series. . . .
Construction of the new building, which will be adjacent to the university’s Berman Institute of Bioethics' Deering Hall in East Baltimore, will be the site of further study “to promote research ethics and community engagement,” the university said.. . .
Hers was an unfathomably vast contribution to advancing human health science.
Here, with her grandchildren, and great grandchildren now. . . "it is well", with these, her progeny -- so, it is well. . . well, too -- with my soul. Be. . . excellent -- be simply. . . excellent.
नमस्ते
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