The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0036UZCRM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 421 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Best Books of the Month, February 2010: From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. Radiolab combines cutting-edge production with a philosophical approach to big ideas in science and beyond, and an inventive method of storytelling. Read his exclusive guest review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks:Honestly, I can't imagine a better tale.A detective story that's at once myt
Captivating, engrossing, fascinating, heartbreaking, englighteningALL in one stellar book! Living it up This is hand's down one of the best books I've read in years and I wish I could give it more stars. It is going to be difficult to capture exactly what makes this book so outstanding and so captivating, but I'm going to give it my best shot. First of all I want to say I am STUNNED that this is the author's first book. She has poured ten years of her heart, soul, mind and her life in general in this book. What she has given birth to in that long period of labor is worthy of her sacrifice and honors Henrietta Lacks and her family. Other reviews have given the outline of this amazing story. What I want to stress is that Ms. Skl. It may be one of the best medical books I have read Michael Tatay The brilliance of this book is the effortlessness with which the author draws the reader into the world of Henrietta Lacks and keeps him there as a tourist or witness. It may be one of the best medical books I have read. Rebecca Skloot took more than ten years to research and write The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This book is mainly about a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old black mother of five in Baltimore when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Doctors took tissue samples from her cervix for research without her knowledge. They spawned the first viable, indeed miraculously pr. "2010 Non-Fiction Award Winner?" according to R PRIUS. As I recall this book was categorized as CANCER, I believe it might be more aptly described as science based non-fiction. In the last two decades I've seen occasional news items alluding to human cells taken from a black woman in the 1950's that have been replicated millions of times. The cells are referred to as HeLa and on the face of it I wouldn't have thought there was much of a story behind the extraction of these cells and their use by the biomed industry. However, this book dispells that rather naive assumption completely and puts a name and a face, a family, and a story behind the contents of many petri dishes and sl
("Sunday Times").. "A heartbreaking account of racism and injustice". "A fine booka gripping readThe book has deservedly been a huge bestseller in the US. It should be here, too". Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences Balancing the beauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who owns the stuff our bodies are made of, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" is an extraordinary journey in search of the soul and story of a real woman, whose cells live on today in all four corners of the world. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. ("Metro"). (Hilary Mantel, "Guardian"). "A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book"