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 [...]
