![]() ![]() Rebecca Skloot learns in a biology class at an early age about the “donor cells” and is immediately intrigued by the woman who supposedly volunteer her cancerous cells that have since become a multi-million dollar industry and enabled almost all medical research anywhere to be conducted. ![]() This book has less of a call to arms feel about it but it is consciousness-raising. Once again, the author pushes the story forward, alternating chapters with the history of Henrietta herself, her descendants and development of her cells as used in modern medical research. Whereas The Tiger was almost purely reporting, Henrietta Lacks is also part memoir. Between The Tiger ( see my review here) and then The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, I’m revising all of my previously held assumptions. Someone has to usually hold me down and drip water on my forehead before I’ll read non-fiction. ![]()
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