The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
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Written by Rebecca Skloot
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) is a non-fiction book by American author Rebecca Skloot. It is about Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line, known as HeLa, that came from her cervical cancer cells in 1951. The book is notable for its accessible science writing and dealing with ethical issues of race and class in medical research. It is Skloot’s first book.
On November 10, 2010, the book was awarded the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding work of fiction or non-fiction on the theme of health and medicine. It also won the Heartland Prize for non-fiction, a Salon Book Award, selected as one of the 100 New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and chosen as a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of 2010. As of August 26, 2012, the paperback edition had spent 75 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
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April 25th, 2015
Race and class should have zero to do with this book… it should have been about science pure and simple but nowadays one has to be so politically correct and bring race and class into everything - and religion.
I long for the days when all that crap wasn’t necessary.
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