The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Ausgezeichnet: The Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2010. With an introduction by Sarah Moss. With an introduction by Sarah Moss
(Sprache: Englisch)
The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . . .
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The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . . .
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There's a photo on my wall of a woman I've never met . . . she looksstraight into the camera and smiles, hands on hips, dress suit neatly pressed,lips painted deep red . . . her name is Henrietta Lacks.Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born apoor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge -became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools inmedicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until morethan twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . . .
Rebecca Skloot's fascinating account is the story of the life, andafterlife, of a woman who changed the medical world for ever. Balancing thebeauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who owns thestuff our bodies are made of, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is anextraordinary journey in search of the soul and story of a real woman, whosecells live on today in all four corners of the world.
'A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book' Hilary Mantel
'Remarkable . . . a vivid portrait of Lacks that should be as abiding asher cells' The Times
Autoren-Porträt von Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and O, the Oprah Magazine, among others. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR's RadioLab and PBS's Nova ScienceNOW, and blogs about science, life, and writing at Culture Dish, hosted by Seed magazine. She also teaches creative non-fiction at the University of Memphis. Her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a moving account of the woman who changed the medical world forever.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rebecca Skloot
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2020, Main Market Ed., 464 Seiten, Masse: 19,5 x 12,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 1509877029
- ISBN-13: 9781509877027
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2020
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Englisch
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No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book. Hilary Mantel Guardian
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