The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

摘要

Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks weaves the advances in medicine and technology with the lives of a family affected by the life and death of one of its members. Henrietta Lacks was born in southern Virginia, raised in Clover, Virginia, and later resided in the Baltimore area. She became a mother, and tragically at a young age, a patient with incurable cancer.