The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Paperback)

from VirginiaGill

If it were possible to give a book more than five stars this one would deserve more. I'm not generally a fan of non-fiction as it can often be a bit on the dull side. This book, this book was nothing short of extraordinary. Parts were breathtaking in the they forced you to see our own history, pa...

from flissp

I've never worked with HeLa cells myself, but I've certainly come across them. To say the cells have made a big difference to scientific research would be to understate the case. They have been crucial in so many areas. Yet, as I don't work with them, and I know I'm not alone in this, it never oc...

from greytone

Those that identify this book as a biography of Henrietta Lacks are mistaken. It would be more accurately described as a eulogy and a sensitive record of the impact this young mother's death had on her family. Even more than that, it is an expose' on the growing commercialization of tissue resear...

from Carolee888

Before I finished this book, I had no doubt that it earned a five star rating. I admire Rebecca Skloot for bringing this amazing story to light. She did a tremendous amount of research and the back of the book is very well documented. But this book is also very striking because instead of a book ...

from womansheart

Civil Rights/Patient's Rights: The book that opens the door to what happened to Henrietta Lacks and her cell tissue Before the rights of medical patients became "law" and the Medical Ethics committees were in place, many tissue samples were taken from patients without their consent. One of those ...