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The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

An amazing tale that everyone who works with any connection to health care should read immediately. And just about anyone else will be riveted by this story too. In 1951 a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer. Pieces of the tumor that killed her are taken, without her consent, and become the foundation for modern science and medical research… no exaggeration. Those cells lead to breakthroughs in cancer, gene mapping, cloning, virus vaccinations, and many other things leading to billions of dollars of products.