I probably would not have read this book, or even heard about it, had it not been for a book club I joined. The story of Henrietta Lacks is actually pretty interesting, at least the parts that we found out. I felt this book was too much about how Skloot figured out the information and about Deborah,...
This is an interesting, if light, work of nonfiction. Henrietta Lacks was a poor black woman who went to the charity ward of Johns Hopkins in 1951 with cervical cancer. Cells were taken from her body without her knowledge, and unlike other cells collected up to that point, they kept reproducing.... ...
Once upon a time I worked with HeLa cells and I was utterly ignorant of their origin, so this book really piqued my interest. After attending a workshop about oppression (class, sex, race, and other factors), this book was highly recommended and I knew I should read it. The book is utterly fascin...
Well written and researched this book addresses the issue of ownership of body parts that have been used for medical analysis or just taken as if that is the case, but kept and used profitably without the knowledge of the donor or the family of the donor. I particularly found the end chapter about r...
Τι μου άρεσε :- Είναι πολύ καλογραμμένο με μια γλώσσα σαφή και αποτελεσματική στους στόχους της και καθόλου αδιάφορη.- Σκηνοθετεί ένα θαυμάσιο μπλέξιμο σε τρία παράλληλα επίπεδα : ένα επιστημονικό ιστορικό χρονικό της έρευνας γύρω από το DNA και την κλωνοποίηση κυττάρων, ένα ιστορικό της αναζήτησης ...
This book should be read. It brings up topics that are virtually skimmed over by society and it's laws. In an age where internet privacy and lack there of is the norm, Henrietta's "donation" to the medical field seems like a pre-historic precursor to privacy invasion. But then again where do we draw...
The story flips between the 1950s of Henrietta Lacks and the late 1990s early 2000s of the authors quest to find the story behind the cells that are so important to modern science, particularly medicine. Henrietta Lacks was a poor black tobacco farmer in the south. A woman who was sure something w...
An excellent book that kept me reading. I started it and only because I had to do something or go to sleep was I able to put it down. I enjoyed the way the book was written (narrative science writing) and was actually able to understand the scientific jargon.
I read this book earlier in the year. This isn't the type of thing I usually read and I can't really say I enjoyed it but parts of it were very interesting. My main problem is this lingering feeling that the author was sort of trying to interject herself into the story too much. Then I started to...
I read this book earlier in the year. This isn't the type of thing I usually read and I can't really say I enjoyed it but parts of it were very interesting. My main problem is this lingering feeling that the author was sort of trying to interject herself into the story too much. Then I started to...
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