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Published on: 2011-03-08
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons--as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta's small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia--a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo--to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. Henrietta's family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family--past and present--is 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 are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family--especially Henrietta's daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother's cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn't her children afford health insurance Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot ... 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Entertainment Weekly 1 Nonfiction Book of the Year New Yorker Reviewers Favorite American Library Association Notable Book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Rebecca Skloot ... Buy The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks on FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders Henrietta Lacks - Wikipedia Personal life. Henrietta Lacks was born Loretta Pleasant on August 1 1920 in Roanoke Virginia to Eliza and Johnny Pleasant. Her family is uncertain how ... The Immortal Life Rebecca Skloot The Immortal Life; Other Writings; Rebecca; News; Speaking; FAQ; Contact; ... The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was featured on over 60 critics best of the year ... The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks the Sequel - The New ... LAST week scientists sequenced the genome of cells taken without consent from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She was a black tobacco farmer and mother of ... 'Henrietta Lacks': A Donor's Immortal Legacy : NPR Excerpted from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Copyright 2010 by Rebecca Skloot. Excerpted by permission of Crown ... The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (TV Movie 2017) - IMDb GET INFORMED. Industry information at your fingertips. GET CONNECTED. Over 200000 Hollywood insiders. GET DISCOVERED. Enhance your IMDb Page. Go to IMDbPro The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Summary - eNotes.com Complete summary of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot ... The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has 369419 ratings and 26976 reviews. Kemper said: The doorbell rang the other day and when I answered it there w... The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Wikipedia The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) is a nonfiction book by American author Rebecca Skloot. It was the 2011 winner of the National Academies Communication ...
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