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yet henrietta lacks remains virtually unknown buried in an unmarked grave now rebecca skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the colored ward of johns hopkins hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of hela cells from henrietta s small dying hometown of clover virginia a land of wooden slave quarters faith healings and voodoo to east baltimore today where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells 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 who was devastated to learn about her mother s cells she was consumed with questions had scientists cloned her mother did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space what happened to her sister elsie who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen 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
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