12/22/14 review of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Rebecca Skloot book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks who became a test subject for doctors in the 1950s. Her cells were taken without her permission and led to scientific discoveries such as the polio vaccine. Lacks's family discovered all of this decades later. Skloot tells the story of both Lacks and her family.

My thread discusses the story of Lacks and her family, as well as Skloot's efforts. It also discusses how the book looks at the history of both science and civil rights, as well as my own reflections on cell science.

Here is the link to Rebecca Skloot's page for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.