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La vida inmortal de Henrietta Lacks

por Rebecca Skloot

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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. Her family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. The story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.… (más)
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    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers por Mary Roach (VenusofUrbino)
    VenusofUrbino: If you like well-researched and well-written non-fiction like "Immortal Life" then you will also appreciate Mary Roach.
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    The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration por Isabel Wilkerson (bunnygirl)
    bunnygirl: personal history and stories linked with the larger African American history. if you were wondering about Skloot's reference to the Lacks family being part of the Great Migration, this book explains exactly what it is and tells the stories of three families in a similar manner.… (más)
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    A Lesson Before Dying por Ernest J. Gaines (krazy4katz)
    krazy4katz: Reading "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," I was pained by the impoverished lives of people who still lived on plantations in the 1940s - lack of schooling, lack of health care, lack of any kind of decent housing etc. "A Lesson Before Dying" more directly addresses the life of people still living on plantations in the '40s. Even though I sort of knew this, it was an emotional shock to truly recognize that all the abuse and oppression did not end with the Civil War but was still there 80 years later.… (más)
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    akblanchard: Unusual medical conditions and racism as experienced by African Americans in the Jim Crow South.
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    krazy4katz: Both of these books capture and humanize the process of medical discovery and the experiences of the patients. Although the authors have somewhat different backgrounds — Rebecca Skloot is a journalist with an undergraduate degree in biology, whereas Rikki Lewis has a PhD in genetics — I think the discussion of the scientific issues and the ethical issues regarding informed consent would appeal to the same readers.… (más)
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Just one word : Deborah ... such a fucking role model .
For the book itself , I would have liked it to be more science than history even though the part about Henrietta family was fun too but I hated the history part .
The book is solid four stars . Mostly enjoyed it but some chapters were boring . ( )
  Jessicaby234 | Apr 30, 2023 |
Rating this feels odd. I was torn about Skoot's depiction of Deborah at points. Sometimes I think it is okay to omit certain aspects of a story, such as a person going back and forth, or someone's reading level, if only to preserve their dignity and focus the story. Despite this, the content of this book is important, and was a worthy read. I definitely want to explore more about how medical and biological studies have comes about. ( )
  ACLopez6 | Feb 25, 2023 |
Outstanding in all ways. A true story written by a talented journalist which unlike most, is illuminating even for those not interested in genetics or healthcare research. Not only is it educational but it gives us great insight into what's possible and how mistreated patients are at the expense of billion dollar healthcare companies and hospitals. ( )
  Jonathan5 | Feb 20, 2023 |
Superb science-history reporting! I loved her writing style and was really impressed by her thoroughness. ( )
  steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |
Once I started reading this book I didn't want to stop. It was engrossing, nicely tied together the history of the Lacks family with the history of the HeLa cells research, and the history of the ethical considerations of using individuals' tissue and call samples for research without their consent. I wasn't expecting to like this book as much as I did, and was completely not expecting the book to be as engaging and alive as it was. This story could have been very dry but Skloot ensured it wasn't by bringing Henrietta (and her family) to life, and by including herself in the book's narrative. Awesome. ( )
  wisemetis | Dec 28, 2022 |
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Skloot narrates the science lucidly, tracks the racial politics of medicine thoughtfully and tells the Lacks family’s often painful history with grace. She also confronts the spookiness of the cells themselves, intrepidly crossing into the spiritual plane on which the family has come to understand their mother’s continued presence in the world. Science writing is often just about “the facts.” ­Skloot’s book, her first, is far deeper, braver and more wonderful.
 
I put down Rebecca Skloot’s first book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” more than once. Ten times, probably. Once to poke the fire. Once to silence a pinging BlackBerry. And eight times to chase my wife and assorted visitors around the house, to tell them I was holding one of the most graceful and moving nonfiction books I’ve read in a very long time.
 
Writing with a novelist's artistry, a biologist's expertise, and the zeal of an investigative reporter, Skloot tells a truly astonishing story of racism and poverty, science and conscience, spirituality and family, all driven by a galvanizing inquiry into the sanctity of the body and the very nature of the life force.
añadido por sduff222 | editarBooklist, Donna Seaman (Dec 1, 2009)
 
Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in a “colored” hospital ward in Baltimore in 1951. She would have gone forever unnoticed by the outside world if not for the dime-sized slice of her tumor sent to a lab for research eight months earlier. ...
Skloot, a science writer, has been fascinated with Lacks since she first took a biology class at age 16. As she went on to earn a degree in the subject, she yearned to know more about the woman, anonymous for years, who was responsible for those ubiquitous cells....
 
Skloot tells a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society's most vulnerable people.
añadido por Shortride | editarPublishers Weekly
 

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Rebecca Sklootautor principaltodas las edicionescalculado
Campbell, CassandraNarradorautor principalalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Turpin, BahniNarradorautor principalalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Acedo, Sara R.Diseñador de cubiertaautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
Grip, GöranTraductorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
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For my family:

My parents, Betsy and Floyd; their spouses, Terry and Beverly;
my brother and sister-in-law, Matt and Renee;
and my wonderful nephews, Nick and Justin.
They all did without me for far too long because of this book,
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...But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors? Don't make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don't get a dime. I used to get so mad about that to where it made me sick and I had to take pills. But I don't got it in me no more to fight. I just want to know who my mother was.
----Deborah Lacks
When I tell people the story of Henrietta Lacks and her cells, the first question is usually Wasn't it illegal for doctors to take Henrietta's cells without her knowledge? Don't doctors have to tell you when they use your cells in research? The answer is no--not in 1951, and not in 2009, when this book went to press.
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. Her family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. The story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

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