Ethically fascinating and completely engaging–I couldn’t recommend it more.” -Deborah Blum, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison “An incredibly readable and smart text that should be a part of countless university discussions. Kroll, Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences, North Carolina Central University The book’s broad scope would make it ideal for an institution-wide freshman year reading program.” -David J.
“What is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks really about? Science, African American culture and religion, intellectual property of human tissues, Southern history, medical ethics, civil rights, the overselling of medical advances?. The many questions raised by the existence and use of HeLa cells will generate hours of classroom discussion.” -Journal of the History of Medicine Students in classes covering ethics, public health, and the history of medicine, childhood, the family, women, the 1950s, and race will be engrossed by Lacks’s story. Skloot is a science journalist but this book also evidences her skill as a historian. “Thanks to Rebecca Skloot’s remarkable book, the Lacks case is likely to become a classic in the history of biomedical ethics. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health “Nothing compares in terms of recent impact on society (not to mention the number of weeks on the New York Times best-seller list) with The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.” -Francis S. Praise for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS CITATION FULL
Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells, from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia-a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo-to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta’s children, unable to afford health insurance, wrestle with feelings of pride, fear, and betrayal. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they were vital for developing the polio vaccine uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the effects of the atom bomb helped lead to important advances in cloning, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping and have been bought and sold by the billions, with devastating consequences for her family. 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. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Named by more than 60 critics as one of the best books of 2010, including:īest Book of the Year at: O, The Oprah Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Bookmarks Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly, East Bay Express, and Kansas City Star, A Discover Magazine 2010 Must Read, National Public Radio, Best of the Bestsellers Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction
Winner of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine’s Communication Award for Best Book
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