Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks.htmlThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating story of a woman who died in 1951. Until this book was written, she was virtually unknown, but her life and death have had ...
After reading this book I felt that the story of Henrietta Lacks should be taught to students along with the story of how her cells have benefited multiple fields of science. And it particularly made me feel strongly about the lack of consent that she and her family had in the entire process. There ...
I would give this 4 1/2 stars. It is such a good read! It is a great story that everyone should know as there isn't anyone in the first world who hasn't benefited from the medical leaps and bounds aided by this woman's cells. It is part biography, part history lesson, part science lesson wrapped ...
Unputdownable account of the woman whose cells were used to start the HeLa cell line and of the family she left behind. The story touches on medical ethics, research, cancer treatment, race, poverty, gender, spirituality, the American healthcare system--really a web of issues. I might have wished fo...
Amazing, thought-provoking story. I'm going to be thinking about this book, Henrietta and her family, and all the issues raised in their story for a long, long time.
It feels like I may be the last person to read Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a New York Times Bestseller now out in paperback (which is how I picked it up: on an impulse-buy sale table at a bookstore).The book, which took Skloot over ten years to research and write, tells th...
Well, finished reading before book club on thursday that I'm not sure I can attend.. sigh..This book puzzles me. I've tried to read it once, gave up, wouldn't have tried again if not for the club, then had this fluctuating feeling reading it. Sometimes I felt like I'd like to just chuck it out but a...
My 2 main thoughts for this book are "sad" and "thought-provoking".SAD because what's happened to Henrietta Lacks and her children. I'm talking about the social effects of being treated differently as "coloured people" from back way when. Being of ethnic origin, I can attest to the Un-pleasantness...
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