Rebecca Skloot is a science journalist. Her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, tells the story of an African American woman whose cancer cells were harvested by doctors without her knowledge. These cells lived and multiplied and were instrumental in many medical breakthroughs. Henrietta's family discovered the truth twenty years after their mother's death and the impact is profound. This is an amazing book about family, poverty, education and lack of education, medical ethics, and cultural differences.
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