Twelve kinds of taste
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Cancer, Cell culture, Research, Patients
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more.
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Bleak, earnest, overwhelming and meticulous.
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Rebecca Skloot untangles the ethical issues in the case of a woman whose cancer cells have been the basis for a vast amount of research.
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On Open Library, 76 have read it and 542 want to.
Rebecca Skloot is an award winning science writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; and many other publications. She specializes in narrative science writing and has explored a wide range of topics, including goldfish surgery, tissue ownership rights, race and medicine, food politics, and packs of wild dogs in Manhattan. She has worked as a correspondent for WNYC’s Radiolab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. Source: Goodreads.com
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“Does it take too many liberties with the true story?”
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“Would a little humor have helped?”
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“Is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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