Acclaimed author Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks--a woman whose cells have been unwittingly used for scientific research since the 1950s--with the birth of bioethics, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans.
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Selected for More than Sixty Best of the Year Lists Including: " " "New York Times" Notable Book "Entertainment Weekly" #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year "New Yorker "Reviewers' Favorite American Library Association Notable Book"" "People "Top Ten Book of the Year "Washington Post Book World" Top Ten Book of the Year Salon.com Best Book of the Year "USA Today "Ten Books We Loved Reading "O, The Oprah Magazine" Top Ten Book of the Year National Public Radio Best of the Bestsellers "Boston Globe" Best Nonfiction Book of the Year "Financial Times" Nonfiction Favorite "Los Angeles Times "Critics' Pick "Bloomberg" Top Nonfiction "New York "magazine Top Ten Book of the Year Slate.com Favorite Book of the Year TheRoot.com Top Ten Book of the Year "Discover" magazine 2010 Must-Read "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year "Library Journal" Top Ten Book of the Year "Kirkus Reviews" Best Nonfiction Book of the Year "U.S. News & World Report" Top Debate-Worthy Book "Booklist" Top of the List--Best Nonfiction Book
"I could not put the book down . . . The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."--"Entertainment Weekly" "Science writing is often just about 'the facts.' Skloot's book, her first, is far deeper, braver, and more wonderful." "--New York Times Book Review
"""The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" is a triumph of science writing...one of the best nonfiction books I have ever read." --Wired.com """A deftly crafted investigation of a social wrong committed by the medical establishment, as well as the scientific and medical miracles to which it led." "--Washington Post " """Riveting...a tour-de-force debut." "--Chicago Sun-Times " "A real-life detective story, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" probes deeply into racial and ethical issues in medicine . . . The emotional im
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An absolutely fascinating non fiction novel about the most important woman in modern medicine who you've never even heard of. Henrietta Lacks, an Afro American woman born in 1920 in Virginia and dead by the tender age of 31 from a disturbingly strong strain of cancer, was the unwitting donor of a sample of cells that would go on to transform medicine and medical research. Her cells have been part of every major medical discovery starting with the polio vaccine and continuing today with research on cancer, AIDS, Parkinson's and more. This book delves into her life, illness, family, the medical staff that treated her, the industry that was built around her cells, and ultimately questions about ethics and medicine. And through it all the author always succeeds in presenting Henrietta as she was, a very real person and perhaps an very real unsung hero.
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