Ebook {Epub PDF} The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Throughout the book, Skloot confronts the ethical question as to whether it is possible for her, as a white woman, to write this story without propagating the hurt already done to the Lacks family. Although she believes herself prepared from the start, demonstrating knowledge of the unethical history of white science, she continues to make a conscious effort to . Skloot's debut book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took more than a decade to research and write, and instantly became a New York Times bestseller. It was chosen as a best book of by more than sixty media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, People, and the New York Times/5(15K).  · In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (ILHL), Skloot blends the Lacks' family history with that of medical sciences and all against a backdrop of systemic racism. For decades, her cell line, named HeLa, has far eclipsed the woman of their origin. Henrietta Lacks was born in as the ninth child of Eliza and Johnny Pleasant in Roanoke, Virginia/5(K).

By Rebecca Skloot. Advertisement. Crown, pages, $ Dr. George Gey and his wife Margaret had been trying to grow cells outside the human body for thirty years when Henrietta Lacks walked into. The LA Times book review section named Skloot one of its four "Faces to Watch in ," an honor that, based on "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" is well-deserved. Five stars--it was hard to put down this compelling, admirable and eminently readable book. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks did not require that at all and yet for some reason a large portion of the book is devoted to showing how fair this white (and how often they remind us that she is white!) woman manages to surpass the absolute bottom of the barrel expectations the much-abused Lacks family has after decades upon decades of.

In , 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. That book became the basis for the HBO/Harpo film by the same name, which was released in April Henrietta Lacks was a woman who unknowingly donated her cells here at Hopkins in , beginning what was the first, and, for many years, the only human cell line able to reproduce indefinitely. Skloot's debut book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took more than a decade to research and write, and instantly became a New York Times bestseller. It was chosen as a best book of by more than sixty media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, People, and the New York Times. 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. 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.