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COPY LINK HERE ; https://inkomastory.blogspot.com/?full=1400052181 DOWNLOAD/PDF The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment WeeklyNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks #1 NEWYORK TIMES BESSELLER •“Thstory of modern medicine and bioethics—an, indeed, race relations—isrefracted beautifully, and movingly.”#8212Entertainment WeeklyNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO®nbspSTARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE #8226 ONE OF THE “MOT INFLUENTIAL”(CNN), “DEINING”(LITHUB), AND “BET”(THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE •nbspONE OF ESSNCE’S50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS •nbspWINNER OF THE CHIAGO TRIBUNE HEATLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TheNew York Times Book Review #8226 Entrtainment Weekly #8226 O The Oprah Magazine #8226 NPR•nbspFinancial Times #8226 NewYork #8226 Indpende nt U.K.) •nbspTimes U.K.) •nbspPublishers Weekly #8226 Libary Journal #8226 Kirus Reviews #8226 Boolist #8226 Gloe and MailHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taen without her knowledge—beame one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “imortal”human cells grown in culture, which are
still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’seffects helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping and have been bought and sold by the billions. YetHenrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.Henrietta’sfamily did not learn of her “imortality”until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—pat and present—isinextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Ove the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—esecially Henrietta’sdaughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’ther children afford health insurance? Intmate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, TheImmortal Life of Henrietta Lacks capures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
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