Last time I was there, there was an addition to the binder of forms I needed to review: a disclosure that my blood could be used for research, and if I didn't agree to that, I shouldn't donate. I was impressed with Rebecca Skloot's remarkable powers of observation and objectivity, and found it refreshing not to be walloped by a writer's agenda. People and science had a baby, and you wouldn't want to put this baby down.

Had they killed her to harvest her cells? 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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly

When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier, the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city, is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.

Such cells were increasingly useful in the new field of virology.

It should be mandatory reading for all medical and cell science students for their ethics classes!

Written so well and I would listen to any non fiction narrated by Cassandra Campbell, she is my all time favorite.

Bahni Turpin, who performs the dialogue for all the members of the Lacks family, supplies those voices with more than the appropriate dialect.

This is a thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world.

I'm not convinced this situation has changed when it comes to medical research.

very well read and interesting! Book Rating (442) Narrator Rating (34) The Immortal Life … She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. They are the most commonly used research cells in the world. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother?

It was a fascinating and ultimately hopeful exploration beyond stereotypes and into how human beings really relate to questions that can never be entirely viewed in clinical, medical terms.

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This Audible book doesn't come with a downloadable reference guide, but there are pictures of the Lacks family and a lot of the scientists mentioned in the book available on Google Books. It’s a wedding for a magazine or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent.

Fusce sed nibh eu odio posuere semper. Miss Skloot was able to re-humanize an important aspect of science who had been objectified and exploited from the start, but to the overall benefit and evolution of medical science, its ethics and practice. The author sure brings up some ethical issues that gets you thinking. Impossible to predict this story as it opens up an area of science and law that our society has yet to tangle with. .

I cannot say enough good things about this book.

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Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco.

great read - couldn't stop listening!

MIND BLOWING!!!!!!! I highly recommend this book it is truly one that will be cited in history books and should be used (and most likely will be) in all medical and school curriculums.

I'm also thankful for what she and the scientific community has done for me, my friends, family, and the world.

When she tells the stories of the members of the Lacks family, her voice is warm and compassionate, but still carries the distinct distance of a biographer/observer.

I remain impressed with their skills of narration, and will start perusing their lists of audio books more frequently. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, like many compelling works of nonfiction, was written to tell one story, but, in its creation, uncovered several others.

She runs a bookstore. The end of the audiobook included an interview with Rebecca Skloot, the author of the book.

I think Skloot did an excellent and honest job of conveying how one poor, black family from the rural South perceives science and medicine. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated.

This title is due for release on February 2, 2010.

The real-life events of Henrietta's children held me in a grip, and often kept me listening long past the points I planned to pause. And, at a few rare but poignant moments in the story, Campbell’s voice sounds exposed and intimately close to the listener’s ear, as the narrative brings us inside Skloot’s own struggle to understand and cope with the uncomfortable truths and thorny issues Henrietta’s story raises. I'm there about every other month - or exactly at 56 days, depending on how persistent those cheerful calls, with their underlying tone of urgency, are. Margaret Bradley is the most senior associate at a prestigious law firm, and she is on track to make partner.

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The medical community showed very little compassion for Henrietta or her familiy.

Of course, they understand and care about the basic things that most Americans do, but their views are colored by a history and identity that, I, a well-educated, middle-class white northerner, simply haven't lived in.

The author does a fine job at weaving all the parts of the story together in a coherent, chronological, and a logical way. We'll send you an email as soon as it is available!

The story of the cells that have always been of interest to me ( being a biochemist) both broke my heart and lifted my spirit.

It is well written and well narrated.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a work of nonfiction about a woman who died tragically young and whose cells were taken from her body without her consent.

Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism.

Henrietta's cells lived, and they named this new cell line HeLa, using first letters from both of her names.

Alan Sklar, A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, Written by: Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. has successfully been added to your shopping cart. All roads run simultaneously and fluidly exploring each facet and staying the course to tell this amazing story.Cells taken without Henrietta's knowledge, have been used for over 50 years to find cures for cancer, create drugs to combat AIDS, grow corneas, and too many positives to list.

This was an outstanding listen, with superb narration. Pamela Xiong, Written by:

Well written book and a very well researched book. Skloot avoids a sociological analysis of the Lacks family, which is good - that would have made them a 'study', not real people.



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