Dying and Not Dying
Cathy Gere: Henrietta Lacks, 10 June 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot.
Macmillan, 368 pp., £18.99, June 2010,978 0 230 74869 9 Show More
by Rebecca Skloot.
Macmillan, 368 pp., £18.99, June 2010,
“... long been aware that there is a human story behind HeLa’s blandly commercialised ubiquity; now Rebecca Skloot’s remarkable book has appeared to fill in all the details. The moniker ‘HeLa’ is derived from the name of a young African-American mother of five, whose agonising death in a Jim Crow era charity hospital gave rise to a quiet revolution ... ”
