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Format: | Paperback | Language: | English |
E-newsletter Yr: | 2011 | ISBN: |
9781400052189 |
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Henrietta Lacks? a wretched Southern tobacco farmer? changed into buried in an unmarked grave sixty years previously. Yet her cells — taken with out her info? grown in culture and supplied and supplied by the billions — was undoubtedly one of the largest tools in medical compare. Rebecca Skloot takes us on an unparalleled drag from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Clinic in the 1950s to East Baltimore this day? where Henrietta’s household struggles alongside with her legacy. | |
Product Identifiers | |
Publisher | Crown/Archetype |
ISBN-10 | 1400052181 |
ISBN-13 | 9781400052189 |
eBay Product ID (ePID) | 109306921 |
Product Key Aspects | |
Format | Paperback |
E-newsletter Yr | 2011 |
Language | English |
Dimensions | |
Weight | 13.3 Oz19459034] |
Width | 5.2in. |
Height | 1.1in. |
Dimension | 8in. |
Further Product Aspects | |
Dewey Edition | 22 |
Illustrated | Sure |
Dewey Decimal | 616.02774092 |
Copyright Date | 2011 |
Creator | Rebecca Skloot |
Collection of Pages | 400 Pages |
Edition Description | Dapper Model |
Lc Classification Quantity | Rc265.6.L24s55 2011 |
E-newsletter Date | 2011-03-08 |
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It signals the appearance of a raw but quite real ability.”-Dwight Garner, The Contemporary York Situations “Skloot’s sparkling fable begins with the lifetime of Henrietta Lacks, who comes fully alive on the page ‘Immortal Life’ reads adore a unusual.”–Eric Roston, The Washington Submit “Fascinating, by turns heartbreaking, droll and unsettling, raises troubling questions about the formula Mrs. Lacks and her household had been handled by researchers and about whether patients may maybe perhaps maybe tranquil maintain an eye on or hold monetary claims on tissue faraway from their bodies.”-Denise Grady, Contemporary York Situations “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is a exciting read and a ringing success. It’s a well-written, moderately-researched, advanced saga of medical compare, bioethics, and urge in America. Above all it is far a human story of redemption for a household, torn by loss, and for a writer with a vision that wouldn’t let move.”-Douglas Whynott, The Boston Globe “Riveting…raises important questions about medical ethics…It be story…Deeply chilling… Whether or no longer those uncountable HeLa cells are a miracle or a violation, Skloot tells their exciting story at final with skill, perception and compassion” -Colette Bancroft, St. Petersburg Situations “The history of HeLa is a rare and extremely tremendous combination of urge, class, gender, pills, bioethics, and intellectual property; far extra rare is the writer than can so clearly fuse those disparate threads trusty into a non-public story so well off and compelling. Rebecca Skloot has crafted a special fragment of science journalism that is no longer any longer doable to save down-or to overlook.”- Seed magazine “No person can remark precisely where Henrietta Lacks is buried: trusty thru the decades Rebecca Skloot spent working on this book, even Lacks’ explain of delivery of Clover, Virginia, disappeared. But that did no longer stay Skloot in her quest to exhume, and resurrect, the story of her heroine and her household. What this important, invigorating book lays bare is how with out disaster science can conclude immoral, especially to the wretched. The points evoked listed below are huge: who owns our bodies, the use and misuse of medical authority, the unhealed wounds of slavery … and Skloot, with clarity and compassion, helps us take the long peruse. Here’s precisely the form of story that books had been made to sing-thorough, detailed, quietly passionate, and complete of revelation.”-TED CONOVER, creator of Newjack and The Routes of Man “It be extremely rare when a reporter’s ardour finds its match in a story. Rarer tranquil when the folk in that story courageously join that reporter in the learn about what we most should know about ourselves. When this happens with a appropriate journalist who is additionally a edifying writer, a human being with a coronary heart edifying of preserving all of lifestyles’s spoil and joy, the celebrities hold aligned. Here’s an unparalleled present of a book, vibrant and devastating-a work of powerful literary reportage. Learn it! It be the very most exciting you are going to discover in loads of decades.”-ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC, creator of Random Family ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings to mind the work of Philip Okay. Dick and Edgar Allan Poe. But this story is nice. Rebecca Skloot explores the racism and greed, the idealism and faith in science that helped to keep hundreds of lives but nearly destroyed a household. 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The story of favorite pills and bioethics–and, indeed, urge relatives–is refracted beautifully, and movingly.” — Leisure Weekly “Science writing will probably be nearly ”the facts.” Skloot”s book, her first, is much deeper, braver, and extra unbelievable.” –Contemporary York Situations Book Evaluate ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a triumph of science writing…undoubtedly one of the very most exciting nonfiction books I truly hold ever read.” –Wired.com ” A deftly crafted investigation of a social immoral dedicated by the sanatorium, apart from because the scientific and medical miracles to which it led.” –Washington Submit ” Riveting…a tour-de-power debut.” –Chicago Solar-Situations “A real-lifestyles detective story, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks probes deeply into racial and ethical points in pills . . . The emotional affect of Skloot”s story is intensified by its skillfully orchestrated counterpoint between two worlds.” — Nature “A jaw-losing most exciting story . . . raises urgent questions about urge and compare for ”growth” . . . an exciting story for all ages.” — Essence “This unparalleled fable reveals us that miracle workers, believers, and con artists populate hospitals apart from as church buildings, and that even a science writer may maybe perhaps maybe discover herself taking part in a central aim in one more person”s mythology.” — The Contemporary Yorker “Has the story scope of Greek drama, and a corresponding inability to be with out disaster outlined away.” — SF Weekly “One amongst the sizable medical biographies of our time.” — The Monetary Situations “Like any most exciting-attempting scientific compare, this beautifully crafted and painstakingly researched book raises nearly as many questions because it answers . . . In a time when it”s favorite to demonize scientists, Skloot generously does no longer pin any sins to the lapels of the researchers. She honest lets them be human . . . [and] challenges powerful of what we acquire of ethics, tissue ownership, and humanity.” — Science “Indelible . . . The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a valorous work of cultural and medical journalism.” –Laura Miller, Salon.com “No ineffective girl has executed extra for the living . . . a exciting, harrowing, vital book.” –Hilary Mantel, The Guardian (U.Okay.) ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks does a couple of book ought so as to conclude.” — Dallas Morning News “Above all it is far a human story of redemption for a household, torn by loss, and for a writer with a vision that wouldn’t let move.” — Boston Globe “This powerful story of how the cervical cells of the leisurely Henrietta Lacks, a wretched sunless girl, enabled subsequent discoveries from the polio vaccine to in vitro fertilization is unparalleled in itself; the added portrayal of Lacks”s rotund lifestyles makes the story advance alive alongside with her humanity and the palpable relationship between urge, science, and exploitation.” –Paula J. Giddings, creator of Ida, A Sword Amongst Lions ; Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor, Afro-American Analysis, Smith College “Skloot”s exciting, suspenseful book is an extremely good addition for non-science wonks.” — Newsweek “Unheard of . . ., “I may maybe perhaps maybe no longer save the book down . . . The story of favorite pills and bioethics-and, indeed, urge relatives-is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”- Leisure Weekly “Science writing will probably be nearly ‘the facts.’ Skloot’s book, her first, is much deeper, braver, and extra unbelievable.” -Contemporary York Situations Book Evaluate ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksis a triumph of science writing…undoubtedly one of the very most exciting nonfiction books I truly hold ever read.” -Wired.com “A deftly crafted investigation of a social immoral dedicated by the sanatorium, apart from because the scientific and medical miracles to which it led.” -Washington Submit “Riveting…a tour-de-power debut.” -Chicago Solar-Situations “A real-lifestyles detective story, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksprobes deeply into racial and ethical points in pills . . . The emotional affect of Skloot’s story is intensified by its skillfully orchestrated counterpoint between two worlds.” – Nature “A jaw-losing most exciting story . . . raises urgent questions about urge and compare for ‘growth’ . . . an exciting story for all ages.” – Essence “This unparalleled fable reveals us that miracle workers, believers, and con artists populate hospitals apart from as church buildings, and that even a science writer may maybe perhaps maybe discover herself taking part in a central aim in one more person’s mythology.” – The Contemporary Yorker “Has the story scope of Greek drama, and a corresponding inability to be with out disaster outlined away.” – SF Weekly “One amongst the sizable medical biographies of our time.” – The Monetary Situations “Like any most exciting-attempting scientific compare, this beautifully crafted and painstakingly researched book raises nearly as many questions because it answers . . . In a time when or no longer it is favorite to demonize scientists, Skloot generously does no longer pin any sins to the lapels of the researchers. She honest lets them be human . . . [and] challenges powerful of what we acquire of ethics, tissue ownership, and humanity.” – Science “Indelible . . . The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksis a valorous work of cultural and medical journalism.” -Laura Miller, Salon.com “No ineffective girl has executed extra for the living . . . a exciting, harrowing, vital book.” -Hilary Mantel, The Guardian(U.Okay.) ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksdoes a couple of book ought so as to conclude.” – Dallas Morning News “Above all it is far a human story of redemption for a household, torn by loss, and for a writer with a vision that wouldn’t let move.” – Boston Globe “This powerful story of how the cervical cells of the leisurely Henrietta Lacks, a wretched sunless girl, enabled subsequent discoveries from the polio vaccine to in vitro fertilization is unparalleled in itself; the added portrayal of Lacks’s rotund lifestyles makes the story advance alive alongside with her humanity and the palpable relationship between urge, science, and exploitation.-Paula J. Giddings, creator of Ida, A Sword Amongst Lions; Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor, Afro-American Analysis, Smith College “Skloot’s exciting, suspenseful book is an extremely good addition for non-science wonks.” – Newsweek “Unheard of . . . If science has exploited Henrietta Lacks [Skloot] is determined no longer to. This biography ensures that she received’t ever once more be decreased to cells in a petri dish: she’s going to continuously be Henri, Selected for Better than Sixty Easiest of the Yr Lists Including: Contemporary York Situations Distinguished Book Leisure Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of the Yr Contemporary Yorker Reviewers’ Favourite American Library Affiliation Distinguished Book Of us High Ten Book of the Yr Washington Submit Book World High Ten Book of the Yr Salon.com Easiest Book of the Yr USA Currently Ten Books We Loved Reading O, The Oprah Magazine High Ten Book of the Yr Nationwide Public Radio Easiest of the Bestsellers Boston Globe Easiest Nonfiction Book of the Yr Monetary Situations Nonfiction Favourite Los Angeles Situations Critics’ Make a choice Bloomberg High Nonfiction Contemporary York magazine High Ten Book of the Yr Slate.com Favourite Book of the Yr TheRoot.com High Ten Book of the Yr Peep magazine 2010 Must-Learn Publishers Weekly Easiest Book of the Yr Library Journal High Ten Book of the Yr Kirkus Experiences Easiest Nonfiction Book of the Yr U.S. News & World Characterize High Debate-Estimable Book Booklist High of the Record-Easiest Nonfiction Book “I may maybe perhaps maybe no longer save the book down . . . The story of favorite pills and bioethics-and, indeed, urge relatives-is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”- Leisure Weekly “Science writing will probably be nearly ‘the facts.’ Skloot’s book, her first, is much deeper, braver, and extra unbelievable.” -Contemporary York Situations Book Evaluate ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a triumph of science writing…undoubtedly one of the very most exciting nonfiction books I truly hold ever read.” -Wired.com ” A deftly crafted investigation of a social immoral dedicated by the sanatorium, apart from because the scientific and medical miracles to which it led.” -Washington Submit ” Riveting…a tour-de-power debut.” -Chicago Solar-Situations “A real-lifestyles detective story, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks probes deeply into racial and ethical points in pills . . . The emotional affect of Skloot’s story is intensified by its skillfully orchestrated counterpoint between two worlds.” – Nature “A jaw-losing most exciting story . . . raises urgent questions about urge and compare for ‘growth’ . . . an exciting story for all ages.” – Essence “This unparalleled fable reveals us that miracle workers, believers, and con artists populate hospitals apart from as church buildings, and that even a science writer may maybe perhaps maybe discover herself taking part in a central aim in one more person’s mythology.” – The Contemporary Yorker “Has the story scope of Greek drama, and a corresponding inability to be with out disaster outlined away.” – SF Weekly “One amongst the sizable medical biographies of our time.” – The Monetary Situations “Like any most exciting-attempting scientific compare, this beautifully crafted and painstakingly researched book raises nearly as many questions because it answers . . . In a time when or no longer it is favorite to demonize scientists, Skloot generously does no longer pin any sins to the lapels of the researchers. She honest lets them be human . . . [and] challenges powerful of what we acquire of ethics, tissue ownership, and humanity.” – Science “Indelible . . . The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a valorous work of cultural and medical journalism.” -Laura Miller, Salon.com “No ineffective girl has executed extra for the living . . . a exciting, harrowing, vital book.” -Hilary Mantel, The Guardian (U.Okay.) ” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks does a couple of book ought so as to conclude.” – Dallas Morning News “Above all it is far a human story of redemption for a household, torn by loss, and for a writer with a vision that wouldn’t let move.” – Boston Globe “This powerful story of how the cervical cells of the leisurely Henrietta Lacks, a wretched sunless girl, enabled subsequent discoveries from the polio vaccine to in vitro fertilization is unparalleled in itself; the added portrayal of Lacks”s rotund lifestyles makes the story advance alive alongside with her humanity and the palpable relationship between urge, science, and exploitation.-Paula J. Giddings, creator of Ida, A Sword Amongst Lions ; Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor, Afro-American Analysis, Smith College “Skloot’s exciting, suspenseful book is an extremely good addition for non-science wonks. |
Lccn | 2011-288016 |
Edited by | Mariam T. Tennoe, Lambert M. Surhone, Susan F. Henssonow |
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