THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS: Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same. (taken from the front cover of the book)
Considered, "Extraordinary" by THE NEW YORKER, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks entails a true account of a journey led by it's author and science writer, Rebecca Skloot.
The story of Henrietta Lacks' "immortal cells", known commonly to scientists as HeLa cells, taken without her knowledge back in the 1950s lead us through her legacy while revealing a dark history of truths uncovered.
Join us!!
We'll be meeting on Tuesday, May 8th from 6 to 7:30 at Becky's Coffee Corner.
