![]() It’s a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we’re made of. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine of scientific discovery and faith healing and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. Encompassing science, ethics and biography, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is as much a fascinating story as it is a book on medical science. Crown Publishing Group published the book in 2010, and it won a National Academies Communication Award the following year. Rebecca Skloot explores the racism and greed, the idealism and faith in science that helped to save thousands of lives but nearly destroyed a family. Made into an HBO movie by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball, this New York Times bestseller takes readers on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers filled with HeLa cells, from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is a non-fiction book that tells the story of Lacks and her HeLa cells, or the immortal cell line that doctors retrieved from her cervical cancer cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings to mind the work of Philip K. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Paperback Maby Rebecca Skloot (Author) 4.6 27,572 ratings Editors' pick Best Nonfiction See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 15.93 240 Used from 1.24 59 New from 10.25 5 Collectible from 17. It was the 2011 winner of the National Academies. In 1973, a scientist contacted family members, seeking blood samples and other genetic. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells-taken without her knowledge in 1951-became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) is a non-fiction book by American author Rebecca Skloot. 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' The Lacks family learned about the HeLa cells in the 1970s. That book became the basis for the HBO/Harpo film by the same name, which was released in April 2017. ![]() Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. In 2010, Rebecca Skloot published The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a compelling look at Henrietta Lacks’ story, her impact on medical science, and important bioethical issues.
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