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Critical Consensus for 2/18: Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

BNA_Daily | February 19, 2010

If you haven’t read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks yet (it’s only been out for 2 weeks), you probably will soon.  In this nonfiction merger between history, science, race relations, and bioethics, Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American mother of 5 who died of cervical cancer in 1951.  The thing [...]