Books Sandwiched In- “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot

[Friends of the Library]

Mondays -- 12:10-12:50 p.m.
Central Library, Aaronson Auditorium -- 4th St and Denver Ave

"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor
African-American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia,
who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30
in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her
knowledge or consent as was the custom then, turned out to
provide one of the holy grails of midcentury biology: human
cells that could survive in the lab, known as HeLa cells. Their
stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless
breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio.

Reviewer: Mark Fox, M.D., associate dean for community
health and research development, associate professor in the
departments of internal medicine and pediatrics, and director
of Native American health initiatives for the University of
Oklahoma School of Community Medicine in Tulsa

Coffee and sandwiches are available or you may bring your lunch.
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