Ebook {Epub PDF} The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

 · The official trailer for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (aka HeLa) from HBO starring Oprah Winfrey as Deborah Lacks, Renee Elise Goldsberry as Henrietta, and Rose Byrne as Rebecca Skloot. The film premieres April 22nd at pm. Learn More. Skloot's debut book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took more than a decade to research and write, and instantly became a New York Times bestseller. It was chosen as a best book of by more than sixty media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, People, and the New York Times/5(15K). And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 /5(K).

The remarkably story of Henrietta's life, cells and family are now coming to light, narrated in an equally remarkable book - Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Skloot is. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings to mind the work of Philip K. Dick and Edgar Allan Poe. But this tale is true. Rebecca Skloot explores the racism and greed, the idealism and faith in science that helped to save thousands of lives but nearly destroyed a family. This is an extraordinary book, haunting and beautifully told.". The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks., by. Rebecca Skloot. In , a year-old African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks entered Johns Hopkins Hospital to be treated for cervical cancer. In a matter of months she was dead, overcome by her cancer's malignancy. Her cancer cells, however, would prove immortal—and change medicine forever.

In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (ILHL), Skloot blends the Lacks' family history with that of medical sciences and all against a backdrop of systemic racism. For decades, her cell line, named HeLa, has far eclipsed the woman of their origin. Henrietta Lacks was born in as the ninth child of Eliza and Johnny Pleasant in Roanoke, Virginia. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Throughout the book, Skloot confronts the ethical question as to whether it is possible for her, as a white woman, to write this story without propagating the hurt already done to the Lacks family. Although she believes herself prepared from the start, demonstrating knowledge of the unethical history of white science, she continues to make a conscious effort to conduct her research in a way designed to minimize harm. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks () is a non-fiction book by American author Rebecca Skloot. It was the winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine.