The book explores the scientific breakthroughs enabled by her cells as well as the ethical, racial, and personal issues surrounding her family’s experience and also explores how one woman’s cells changed medicine forever while her descendants lived in poverty, unaware of her contribution.Author: Rebecca Skloot Categories: Biography, History, Non-Fiction Tags: Death and Immortality, legacy., medical ethics, Race and Inequality, Racial Injustice, Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
