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Emphasizing the value of utilizing both facts and stories to teach and learn about health, race, and social justice, this reflection makes a case for using The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health to create a dialogue with undergraduate health education students. The unique combination of facts and stories that the two books provide sparked conversations from which both my students and I were grateful to learn.

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social justice undergraduate public health education teaching and learning

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(2019). Reading for social justice: A guide for families and educators. https://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/2019-01/TT-Reading-For-Social-Justice-Guide.pdf

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(2019). Well: What we need to talk about when we talk about health. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30867-0

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(2010). The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown.

Students by Race and Ethnicity. (2020). The University of Alabama: Students by race/ethnicity: Fall 2020. Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. https://oira.ua.edu/factbook/reports/student-enrollment/fall-term/students-by-race-and-ethnicity/202040.html

Usefulness of a Health Education and Promotion Book Club to Teach About Race and Social Justice

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