We offer a Price Match Guarantee, and QuickQuote form, to make purchasing quick and easy. Unlike Amazon and other retailers who may also offer The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks books on their website, we specialize in large quantities and provide personal service, from trusted, experienced, friendly people in Portland, Oregon. It was chosen as a best book of 2010 by more than sixty media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, People, and the New York Times. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days. Skloots debut book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took more than a decade to research and write, and instantly became a New York Times bestseller. This book title, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, ISBN: 9781400052189, by Rebecca Skloot, published by Crown/Archetype (March 8, 2011) is available in paperback. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine of scientific discovery and faith healing and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells-taken without her knowledge in 1951-became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can't afford health insurance. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.' - Hilary Mantel, Guardian 33.Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne 'No dead woman has done more for the living. 9781509877027 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 33.8000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction/biography-memoir /shop/books/non-fiction With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone, Sarah Moss A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.' - Hilary Mantel, Guardian This is an extraordinary book, haunting and beautifully told. Rebecca Skloot explores the racism and greed, the idealism and faith in science that helped to save thousands of lives but nearly destroyed a family. 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. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings to mind the work of Philip K. Now a HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne. Skloot narrates the science lucidly, tracks the racial politics of medicine thoughtfully and tells the Lacks family’s often painful history with grace. Balancing the beauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who owns the stuff our bodies are made of, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is an extraordinary journey in search of the soul and story of a real woman, whose cells live on today in all four corners of the world. Rebecca Skloot's fascinating account is the story of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world for ever. With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone, Sarah Moss Rebecca Skloot's fascinating account is t. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine.
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