Name: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Author: Rebecca Skloot
ISBN: 9780307589385

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FL-0173E.V.

SKLOOT, Rebecca

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2010

Rebecca Skloot's *The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks* tells the story of the woman behind HeLa, the immortal cell line that transformed modern medicine, and of the family left trying…

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Rebecca Skloot The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Before you begin This is a reported nonfiction book about medical exploitation, segregation, poverty, child abuse, sexual abuse, psychiatric institutionalization, and the long afterlife of being turned into a scientific resource without understanding or consent. It is also a book about family love, religious meaning, and what happens when a person’s body becomes globally famous while her descendants remain poor, frightened, and largely excluded from the story told about her. The book’s center of gravity changes as it goes. It begins as…

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Accession:FL-0173

ISBN-13:9780307589385

Published:2010

Language:en

Shelved under:Biography, History, Science and Tech

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