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Authors: Rebecca Skloot
Page count: 381
Publisher: Crown
Subjects: Nonfiction, Science History, Biography
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-5217-2
Product Dimensions: Kindle eBook / Audiobook
The story in a few lines
Rebecca Skloot follows the life of Henrietta Lacks and the family behind HeLa cells. Cells collected during Lacks’s cancer treatment in 1951 without her knowledge became an important research resource. The book combines scientific history with questions about consent, race and the family’s experience. It is an absorbing choice for readers who want the human story behind a familiar medical name.
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Who should read:
Friends who are interested in the following topics, social-economic and medical reasearch. It is a book that explore and details the African community in the early days, the challenges and difficulties, the culture and thought process during such times.
Undoubtedly, friends who are in the medical field will have known HeLa cells. They will want to know more of its history and its origins. This book provides a third party view on HeLa’s life while she is alive, and the contributions achieved by HeLa cells
Who should NOT read:
In my view, i think it is a good medical history book for the medical and non-medical readers. If anyone is affected by such social and economical injustice dealt to certain ethnicity, then this book will not be suitable at all.
This book present facts and document the life of HeLa from a third party view.
Takeaway points:
If something is taken away without permission, it is considered an act of theft. Justifications may be made to cover this act, but nothing can change the fact that it is still an act of theft.
The only weakness in this argument is, if only the beneficiary is knowledgeable to protect herself in commercial terms so as to benefit together. Still, it is a remarkable discovery that brings a great change to mankind, and HeLa’s descendants subsequently.
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