Rebecca Skloot

"En fascinerande bok", betyg 4 - Yukiko Duke i Gomorron Sverige

"Djupt förbryllad har jag läst en intressant bok, som ställer frågor om min egen dödlighet." - PO Enqvist i Expressen

"En av de märkvärdigaste böcker jag läst... en enastående historia" - Ingalill Mosander i Aftonbladet

"En märkvärdig bok, omöjlig att lägga ifrån sig." - Oline Stig i Sydsvenskan

"En av de mest utsökta och rörande faktaböcker jag läst." - New York Times

I januari 1951 diagnosticerades Henrietta Lacks med cancer. Nio månader senare avled hon. Men de cellprov som hennes läkare tog lever fortfarande. De har gett upphov till tre Nobelpris, de låg till grund för poliovaccinet, de har varit på månen. Men ingen kände till den fattiga, svarta tobaksodlaren som var alltings upphov.

Den odödliga Henrietta Lacks är en storartad berättelse om vetenskapens fantastiska förmåga att skapa ett bra liv för oss alla. Men också en tragisk historia om krocken mellan medicin, etik och ras. Och inte minst en djupt skakande berättelse om en dotter som förtärdes av frågor om sin mor som hon aldrig fick lära känna.

A heartbreaking account of a medical miracle: how one woman's cells - taken without her knowledge - have saved countless lives. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story of race, class, injustice and exploitation.'No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.' - Hilary Mantel, GuardianHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. 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. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . . .Rebecca Skloot's moving account is the story of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world forever. 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.Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.

RESUMO ESTENDIDO: A VIDA IMORTAL DE HENRIETTA LACKS (THE INMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS) - BASEADO NO LIVRO DE REBECCA SKLOOT-CONTEUDOComo Henrietta Descobriu Esse Nó No Abdÿmen Inferior?Que Tipo De Câncer Henrietta Apresentou E Como Chegaram Ao Diagnóstico E O Tratamento?De Onde Surgiu O Termo Hela E Qual Sua Origem?Por Que Alexis Carrel Ganhou Um Prêmio Nobel?Como São Realizadas A Prática Com Amostras De Hela Em Humanos?Como As Células Hela Contribuÿram Para A Validação Da Vacina Contra Poliomielite?Henrietta Estava Realmente Morta?O Que Acontece Quando A Verdade Se Apresenta?O Que Acontecerá Com Deborah E Onde Estão Agora?-SOBRE O LIVRO ORIGINALA Vida Imortal de Henrietta Lacks. Este livro nos conta a vida de uma camponesa que morreu, mas suas células ainda estão vivas, apesar do fato de que há mais de 60 anos a vida de Henrietta Lacks se acabou, Henrietta contribuiu com muitos avanços cientÿficos e curas de doenças, enriquecendo a indústria farmacêutica, mas não deixou nenhuma contribuição financeira para sua própria famÿlia para os injustos, a autora Rebecca Skloot faz uma investigação e nos conta a história desde o inÿcio na cidade natal de Henrietta nos anos 50 até os dias atuais.-SOBRE MENTORS LIBRARYOS LIVROS SÿO MENTORES. Eles podem orientar o que fazemos em nossas vidas e como fazemos. Muitos de nós amamos os livros e vários deles até permanecem na nossa memória algumas semanas depois de lidos, mas depois de 2 anos não podemos mais nos lembrar se o lemos de fato ou não. E isso não é bom. Lembramos que, na época, tal livro significava muito para nós. Por que é que esquecemos tudo depois? Este resumo expressa as ideias mais importantes do livro original. Muitas pessoas não gostam de ler, só querem saber o que o livro diz que elas devem fazer. Se você confia no autor, não precisa dos argumentos. A maioria dos livros são argumentos para as ideias do leitor, mas muitas vezes não precisamos de argumentos se confiamos na fonte. Podemos entender a ideia imediatamente. Toda esta informação está no livro original. Este resumo faz o esforço de reduzir redundâncias e transformá-las em instruções diretas para as pessoas que não pretendem ler o livro em sua totalidade. Esta é a missão do MENTORS LIBRARY.

A heartbreaking account of a medical miracle: how one woman's cells - taken without her knowledge - have saved countless lives. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story of race, class, injustice and exploitation.'No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.' - Hilary Mantel, GuardianWith an introduction Sarah Moss, author of by author of Summerwater.Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without asking her - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . . .Rebecca Skloot's moving account is the story of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world forever. 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.Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment WeeklyNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS • WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Financial Times • New York • Independent (U.K.) • Times (U.K.) • Publishers Weekly • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • Globe and MailHer 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. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.

The eternal life of Henrietta Lux is not just a biography, but a criticism of the science that ignores the human origin of its resources. Documenting what can be considered the first case of medical research ethics, and this story is closely related to the dark history of the experiences of black Americans. By achieving a magician, the writer transmits the marginalized history of Henrietta Lux and her family in this book, which she published after eleven years of research and investigations. Soon, she turned into a film produced by the media, Oprah Winfrey, who played the role of Henrietta''s daughter (Debora) after being affected by this biography of pain and persecution. The book remained 75 weeks in the list of the best -selling narrative books in the New York Times, translated into more than 20 languages ??around the world, and received a wide range of critics.