9781400052189
Rebecca Skloot
ISBN 13: 9781400052189
Publisher: Broadway Books
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Softcover
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Book Description: Broadway. 1 Paperback(s), 2011. soft. Book Condition: New. Selected for more than 60 Best of the Year lists, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe, this superb exploration by science writer Rebecca Skloot captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences, in the story of a poor black woman whose cells were taken for biological research and are still alive 60 years after her death. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: the first "immortal" human cells grown in culture. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta's desiccating hometown of Clover, Virginia, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells, unable to afford health insurance."Science journalist [Rebecca] Skloot makes a remarkable debut with this multilayered story about faith, science, journalism, and grace. It is also a tale of medical wonders and medical arrogance, racism, poverty and the bond that grows, sometimes painfully, between two very different women—Skloot and Deborah Lacks—sharing an obsession to learn about Deborah's mother, Henrietta, and her magical, immortal cells. Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old black mother of five in Baltimore when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her knowledge, doctors treating her at Johns Hopkins took tissue samples from her cervix for research. They spawned the first viable, indeed miraculously productive, cell line—known as HeLa. These cells have aided in medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to AIDS treatments. What Skloot so poignantly portrays is the devastating impact Henrietta's death and the eventual importance of her cells had on her husband and children. Skloot's portraits of Deborah, her father and brothers are so vibrant and immediate they recall Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family. Writing in plain, clear prose, Skloot avoids melodrama and makes no judgments. Letting people and events speak for themselves, Skloot tells a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society's most vulnerable people."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) 382. Bookseller Inventory # 29054 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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