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2000 - 22."The Fame She So Richly Deserves". 1960-1966 - 19."The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now". 1951 - 1965 - 16."Spending Eternity in the Same Place". 1951 - 5."Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside". Machine generated contents note: Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph - Deborah's Voice - pt. Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-418) and index Originally published: New York : Crown London : Macmillan, 2010
Rebecca Skloot takes the reader on an extraordinary journey in search of Henrietta's story She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells became one of the most important tools in medicine. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Xii, 431 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm
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United States, Cancer - Research, Cell culture, Medical ethics, Biography, African American women, Cancer - Patients, Health, Human experimentation in medicine, Hela cells, Bioethics, Blacks, Human genetics, HeLa Cells, Neoplasms, Translational Medical Research, Ethics, United States, Virginia Publisher London : Pan Books Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English
11.Publication date 2011 Topics Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 - Health, Lacks, Henrietta - Health, Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951, Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 - hälsa, Cancer - Patients - Virginia - Biography, African American women - Virginia - Biography, Human experimentation in medicine - United States - History - 20th century, HeLa cells, Medical ethics - United States - History - 20th century, 44.01 history of medicine, 44.02 philosophy and ethics of medicine, African American women - History, Human experimentation in medicine - History. The college is also offering an online, late-start, one-unit Book of the Year discussion class, Reading 10 beginning Monday, Sept.
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The committee will be collaborating with faculty, staff, students, and community members to create a series of discussion forums on the various campuses in spring semester 2018, during the week of Feb. The CR Book of the Year committee will be promoting the reading of the book in fall semester 2017, and distributing 900 books to students throughout the district. floods over you like a narrative dam break, as if someone had managed to distill and purify the more addictive qualities of Erin Brockovich, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The Andromeda Strain. Winner of several awards, including the 2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Award for Excellence in Science Writing, the 2011 Audie Award for Best Non-Fiction Audiobook, and a Medical Journalists’ Association Open Book Award, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was featured on over 60 critics’ best of the year lists.Ĭritic Dwight Garner of The New York Times describe the book as “One of the most graceful and moving nonfiction books I’ve read in a very long time. The book is a nonfiction examination of a poor black woman whose cells, taken without her knowledge in 1951, became one of the most important tools in medicine. College of the Redwoods has named The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot as its 2017/18 Book of the Year.
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