mp3 ontheroadIt seems that many of my online friends rate this book highly and an hour in, I can say this is interesting. I find the hit and miss care of Jim Crow era black care particularly disturbing/enraging. Wow! I have just been side-reading about this flake...Alexis Carrel
Very interesting and well-researched book. It was a wonderful read and I was sad when it was over. The chapters jump back and forth through time but the timeline above each chapter head which indicates the year or range of years covered in the chapter helped immensely. I don't really have an opinion...
I liked the afterword best, with its discussion and analysis of the murky ethics of tissue donation and tissue ownership. For me, that was the strongest component of the book.The story of Lacks is a sad one, and the story of the HeLa cells is fascinating. The intersection of those stories is very od...
Part of my ongoing attempt to read at least a few of the books that are popular at any given time. This book has been on both the Globe and Mail and New York Times Bestsellers lists for much of the past year. And I don't know if it's a classic, but it was a good read. The author does a fairly good j...
This is a marvelous book that I recommend everyone to read. Almost all of the research on cells that has occurred in the world have come from Henrietta Lacks who died of cancer. Most human cells die quickly; as a result, long-term research is impossible. However, Henrietta's cancer cells do not d...
Wow! This book has opened my eyes to so many things! I mean, not only is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks engaging and amazing story of this family who has gone through so much, but it also educates you about the medical research field. We all marvel when they find the cure for this or new infor...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was fantastic. I was impressed by Skloot's ability to weave the story of the Lackses together with the story of HeLa. The book is extremely accessible for someone unfamiliar with the scientific terms, and read more like a novel than non-fiction.I've seen many peo...
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