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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Classics, Literary Fiction, Biography) |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is non-fiction, but it reads like fiction. In 1951 Henrietta went to John Hopkins Hospital with a tumor. They took cultures of her tumor, and those cells are still alive today and have changed medical history. No one told Henrietta or her family her cells were taken or used for medical science. Labs across the world make billions on the manufacturing and testing of these cells (HeLa), but her family still lives in poverty. It is an enlightening, frightening, and fascinating read. -- Added by rinda on 01/16/2013
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