The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - Official Trailer
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Book Review: "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca ...
How her cells were being used was not fully explained to them until the early years of this decade when a researcher contacted by Rebecca Skloot, the author of this book, took the time to show Henrietta’s daughter and one of her sons around his... Millions of dollars have been reaped not just from the outcomes of the research that used Henrietta’s cells, but from the sale of those cells to labs. Henrietta’s family were never informed of her “contribution,” and were not aware that her cells were being used in research until 20 years later. In 1951 a woman named Henrietta Lacks died of an extremely aggressive form of cervical cancer in the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins. Henrietta’s cells began to grow, and unlike every other culture before them, they never died. The cells became integral to research on cancer, on the polio vaccine, the HPV vaccine and on many other medical innovations. When she first received treatment for the cancer, a sample was cut from her tumor and sent to a lab responsible for trying to culture human cells for research....
But The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks succeeds despite itself: it is a fascinating, harrowing and necessary book, marred only slightly by the fact that
Conversely, Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is about not having choice -- in this instance, the complete absence of choice for one
“The Pacific” by Stephen Ambrose, “The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell. I could go on and on .
