WWN Book Club Meeting

Event time: 
Monday, July 18, 2016 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119 See map
320 York Street
Event description: 

This meeting we’ll be reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.  We hope you will join us for a great discussion.  New members are always welcome!

Book description: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.

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