EAN: 9781035038619

THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS - REBECCA ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science  telling the
story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah
Winfrey & Rose Byrne.  'No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating 
harrowing  necessary book.' - Hilary Mantel  Guardian   Her name was Henrietta Lacks  but
scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer  her cancer cells - taken without
her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in
medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty
years after her death  with devastating consequences . . .  Rebecca Skloot's fascinating
account is the story of the life  and afterlife  of one woman who changed the medical world
forever. Balancing the beauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who
owns the stuff our bodies are made of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is an extraordinary
journey in search of the soul and story of a real woman  whose cells live on today in all four
corners of the world.

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