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   Feb 5, 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 of the...

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   Apr 20, 2017 · April 20, 2017. One of the most acclaimed nonfiction books of 2010, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” began as an investigation of a medical miracle but became a gripping, poignant...

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   Apr 21, 2017 · George C. Wolfe ’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” premiering on HBO tomorrow night, tells Henrietta’s (Renee Elise Goldsberry) story. Sorta. It also tells the story of journalist Rebecca Skloot ( Rose Byrne ), the woman who spent a decade researching this strange story and wrote the bestselling book on which this film is based. Sorta.

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   Is 'the immortal life of Henrietta Lacks' based on a true story?

   • George C. Wolfe ’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” premiering on HBO tomorrow night, tells Henrietta’s (Renee Elise Goldsberry) story. Sorta. It also tells the story of journalist Rebecca Skloot ( Rose Byrne ), the woman who spent a decade researching this strange story and wrote the bestselling book on which this film is based. Sorta.

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   Is Rebecca Skloot's 'immortal life of Henrietta Lacks' a good book?

   • It has received widespread critical acclaim, with reviews appearing in The New Yorker, Washington Post, Science, and many others. Dwight Garner of the New York Times said, "I put down Rebecca Skloot's first book, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," more than once.

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   Is Henrietta Lacks a story of contingency?

   • Though it has nothing at all to do with fossils or evolution, Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is also a tale of contingency. In February of 1951 doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital removed cancerous cells from the cervix of a 30 year old African American woman who had come in complaining of a painful “knot” inside of her.

   Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - National Geographic

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   Did Henrietta's family know what happened to her?

   • And as famous as Henrietta’s cells were her family knew almost nothing about what happened to her or what was taken from her. While Skloot ably covers the science of HeLa, the real story is the personal drama of Henrietta and her family, in which Skloot comes to play a substantial part.

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   Jun 9, 2017 · In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Sky Atlantic), an adaptation of the book of the same title by Rebecca Skloot that remained on bestseller lists for six years, she reminds us why. It is her ...

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   Feb 16, 2010 · Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. By Riley Black. February 16, 2010. • 4 min read. Contingency has been on my mind quite often these days. What would life look like...

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8. www.kirkusreviews.com › book-reviews › rebeccaTHE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS | Kirkus Reviews

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   Feb 9, 2010 · Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2010. Categories: BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR | HEALTH & FITNESS | GENERAL BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR. Share your opinion of this book. BOOK REVIEW. THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE WRITING 2011. edited by Rebecca Skloot and Floyd Skloot. Reviews. NONFICTION. NIGHT. by Elie Wiesel & translated by Marion Wiesel ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 16, 2006.

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   Feb 2, 2010 · 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.