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5 days ago · 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.
1 day ago · The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks “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.”
3 days ago · The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot; Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty; Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo; Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson; Globalization, Manfred B. Steger
4 days ago · A bill to award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Henrietta Lacks, in recognition of her immortal cells which have made invaluable contributions to global health, scientific research, our quality of life, and patients' rights.
23 hours ago · The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of Lack's daughter Deborah (Oprah Winfrey) and a journalist, the film chronicles Deborah's search to learn about the mother she never knew, and how the unauthorized ...
5 days ago · In her book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” author Rebecca Skloot didn’t mention a second family home a short distance away.
4 days ago · 📚Book Pick -“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot This is a story of poor black woman whose cells, without her knowledge or permission, were used to start industries, and fuel medical and scientific research that developed life-saving medications and vaccines.
