The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Here's a link to the book's web site. It is supposed to be made into a movie soon.
http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/
I'm thinking we all owe Henrietta a huge "thank you".
Carlene
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Hi Carlene,
I recently heard
Hi Carlene,
I recently heard of this amazingly fascinating story!
I have yet to read the actual book, but I've come by the knowledge of this history of this lady and her family by way of a documentary I saw on television perhaps a few months back.
It truly is a riveting story as well as her husband at that time and her descendants were unaware that her cells were being used all of these decades for this research.
I will look for the movie too and hope it does the actual story justice.
Sharon0 -
will lookmsfanciful said:Hi Carlene,
I recently heard
Hi Carlene,
I recently heard of this amazingly fascinating story!
I have yet to read the actual book, but I've come by the knowledge of this history of this lady and her family by way of a documentary I saw on television perhaps a few months back.
It truly is a riveting story as well as her husband at that time and her descendants were unaware that her cells were being used all of these decades for this research.
I will look for the movie too and hope it does the actual story justice.
Sharon
going to look now0
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