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La periodista y escritora científica Rebecca Skloot realiza una apasionante labor de investigación que nos transporta desde la pequeña y decadente ciudad natal de Henrietta, en los años cincuenta, hasta el Baltimore actual, en un viaje extraordinario que mezcla las vivencias de la actual familia Lacks con la historia de unas células que ...
ISBN. 978-1-4000-5217-2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) is a non-fiction book by American author Rebecca Skloot. It was the 2011 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine.
5 de feb. de 2010 · In “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Rebecca Skloot introduces us to the “real live woman,” the children who survived her, and the interplay of race, poverty, science and one...
19 de ene. de 2022 · She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells became one of the most important tools in medicine. Rebecca Skloot takes the reader on an extraordinary journey in search of Henrietta's story. Originally published: New York : Crown ; London : Macmillan, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-418) and index.
As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably 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.
2 de feb. de 2010 · Rebecca Skloot. 4.12. 738,927 ratings41,148 reviews. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her enslaved ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.
