The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Project LEARN Category
L- Listen
E- Educate
Intended Audience(s)
Theme/Focus
History
White Supremacy
Book Details
Author: Rebecca Skloot
Publication Year: 2011
Pages: 381 pages
Book Synopsis
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years.