The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Audiobook Online

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is a non-fiction book that tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge or consent in 1951 and used for medical research. These cells, known as HeLa cells, have been instrumental in numerous medical breakthroughs, but the Lacks family was never compensated or informed about their use. The book explores medical ethics, race, poverty, and scientific progress through the lens of Henrietta’s story and the impact it has had on her family’s lives.

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• By: Rebecca Skloot
• Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin

Her name is Henrietta Lacks, but scientists call her HeLa. She is a poor tobacco farmer in the South who worked on the same land as her slave ancestors, but her cells – taken away without her knowing – became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, still intact. is still alive today, even though she has been dead for more than 60 years. HeLa cells are important for polio vaccine development; uncover the secrets of cancer, viruses and the effects of the atomic bomb; helped lead to important advances such as in vitro fertilization, cloning and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by billions of dong. However, Henrietta Lacks is mostly unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Henrietta’s family did not know about her “immortality” until more than 20 years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without her consent. clearly agree. And although the cells have created a multi-million dollar industry selling human biomaterials, her family has never seen any profits. As Rebecca Skloot brilliantly demonstrates, the story of the Lacks family – past and present – is closely linked with the dark history of African-American experimentation, the birth of morality biology and legal battles over whether we control the things we create. .

More than a decade after discovering this story, Rebecca is drawn into the lives of the Lacks family – especially Deborah, the daughter of Henrietta. Deborah has always struggled with questions: Did scientists clone her mother? Did they kill her to get her cells? And if her mother takes medicine so seriously, why can’t her children buy health insurance? Emotionally intimate, astonishing in scope and unmissable, Henrietta Lacks’ Immortal Life captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, and its consequences for humanity. .

This is an excellent listen, with great narration. I was impressed with Rebecca Skloot’s extraordinary observability and objectivity, and it was refreshing to not be caught up in a writer’s schedule. I expected the science story to be gripping, and it was, but the lack of family members interweaving into the fabric of the story is a wonderful thing. The real-life events of Henrietta’s children captivated me and often made me listen long before the points where I intended to pause.

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