Rebecca Skloot takes the reader on an extraordinary journey in search of Henrietta's story She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells became one of the most important tools in medicine. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Xii, 431 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm
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United States, Cancer - Research, Cell culture, Medical ethics, Biography, African American women, Cancer - Patients, Health, Human experimentation in medicine, Hela cells, Bioethics, Blacks, Human genetics, HeLa Cells, Neoplasms, Translational Medical Research, Ethics, United States, Virginia Publisher London : Pan Books Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn't her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.Publication date 2011 Topics Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 - Health, Lacks, Henrietta - Health, Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951, Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 - hälsa, Cancer - Patients - Virginia - Biography, African American women - Virginia - Biography, Human experimentation in medicine - United States - History - 20th century, HeLa cells, Medical ethics - United States - History - 20th century, 44.01 history of medicine, 44.02 philosophy and ethics of medicine, African American women - History, Human experimentation in medicine - History. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family-especially Henrietta's daughter Deborah. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family-past and present-is 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 are made of. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. Henrietta's family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping and have been bought and sold by the billions. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells-taken without her knowledge-became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The story of modern medicine and bioethics-and, indeed, race relations-is refracted beautifully, and movingly."- Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO(R) STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE - ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL" (CNN), "DEFINING" ( LITHUB ), AND "BEST" ( THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER ) BOOKS OF THE DECADE - WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Entertainment Weekly - O: The Oprah Magazine - NPR - Financial Times - New York - Independent (U.K.) - Times (U.K.) - Publishers Weekly - Library Journal - Kirkus Reviews - Booklist - Globe and Mail Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa.
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