This article is an excerpt from the Shortform summary of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot. Shortform has the world’s best summaries of books you should be reading. Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here . Why do people have give informed consent before participating in a research study? Is it in part because of Chester Southam’s experiment? How many people did Dr. Chester Southam inject with live cancer cells? Chester Southam was a researcher at Sloan-Kettering who studied HeLa cells to see if you could get cancer from contact with the cells. Chester … Continue reading Chester Southam Secretly Injected People With Cancer Cells