I discovered this book because it was on a list of the top 100 books sold on Amazon last year. In your opinion, how did this book stand out among so many […]
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S4L Book Club – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Deborah, Zakariyya, and Rebecca meet Christoph at his Johns Hopkins lab to examine HeLa cells and discuss their commerce. Christoph told Deborah and Zakariyya, about their mother’s cells: “Once there is a […]
S4L Book Club – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The BBC makes a documentary about Henrietta and her family. Roland Pattillo organizes the HeLa Cancer Control Symposium in Atlanta. The city of Atlanta declares October 11 as Henrietta Lacks Day. Sir […]
S4L Book Club – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
What do you think the implications were when the world discovered in 1976 that one of the most important tools in medicine came from a black woman? What would be a similar […]
S4L Book Club – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Michael Rogers, a writer for Rolling Stone magazine, publishes a story about Henrietta and her family. This is the first time the mainstream media reports about Henrietta and her family, and that […]
S4L Book Club – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Chapter 18 explains how HeLa cells positively and negatively impacted medical and scientific research in the 1960s. The chapter also describes the advantages and disadvantages of fusing HeLa cells with animal cells […]
