Learning from 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks reveals that we're fearfully and wonderfully made. God has so intricately crafted our bodies that even the ...

Lessons from the life of Henrietta Lacks | Institute for Public Health

While there, some of her cells were extracted without her knowledge or permission, and these cells were found to be the first 'immortal' line.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - University College Oxford (Univ)

It tells the story of an African-American woman who died in 1951, aged just 31, of an aggressive cervical cancer. It also tells the story of her legacy.

ELA Curriculum Example--The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The story of Henrietta Lacks introduces students to some of the historical context for the Black Lives Matter movement. It personalizes labels like Jim Crow and ...

How to Teach The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Prestwick House

The untold story of the woman who unknowingly saved countless lives with cancer cells taken from her body at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

Common reading program explores an “immortal life”

Skloot's book discusses Lacks' story and ties together many themes: morality and ethics; racism, classism, sexism; technology and globalization; human suffering ...

Common Reading: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Home

Henrietta's family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began ...

The Immortal Lessons of Henrietta Lacks - Rumbi Writes

She was not a passive victim of this medical thievery. She lives on in those cells, saving countless lives. Skloot says, rightly, “There's not a ...

Teaching My Students About Henrietta Lacks - BioLogos

How could I forget the story of yet another life lost too soon to cancer? How could I forget a woman whose cells outlived her and saved ...

Book review: The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - BJGP Life

This book documents Skloot's journey to discover how the cells from Henrietta's fatal cervical cancer came to be so significant within medical research.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - PMC

Henrietta's family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than 25 years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using specimens from ...

Upholding the Highest Bioethical Standards | Johns Hopkins Medicine

The story portrayed in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks points to several important bioethical issues, including informed consent, medical records privacy.

Why understanding the Henrietta Lacks story is so important to ...

The book and movie about Henrietta's life explore the ethics of medical consent, monetary reparation and the effects of poverty and mental health status which ...

Henrietta Lacks: How Her Cells Became One of the Most Important ...

Author of 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' discusses the extraordinary ways medical research benefitted from an African American ...

Teachers & Students - Rebecca Skloot

Teachers & Students. In addition to being a riveting reading experience, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has become an important educational tool.

Thoughts on Part 1 of the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | ēthos

It evokes philosophical and moral dilemmas that highlight how Henrietta Lacks became a tragic victim of medical professionals.

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks - PMC

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is the astonishing biography of a poor tobacco farmer whose cells, first grown in culture in 1951, are still ubiquitous in ...

Lesson Plans/Study Guides - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is the story of an African American woman and her family that touches on many big issues: bioethics, racism, poverty, ...

How Rebecca Skloot Built The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

To me this created an added layer of tension, and I suspect that for readers who aren't thinking of Skloot the character versus Skloot the ...

Thoughts I Have While Reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ...

I loved the writing style. It goes back and forth between Henrietta's life/family and the scientific achievements of HeLa on each chapter, ...