Day: March 23, 2011

  • 52 Titles: Rebecca Skloot’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”

    Henrietta Lacks was a black woman from Baltimore who died of an aggressive cervical cancer in the 1950s. During her treatment at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins (a free hospital for blacks) and after her death, her malignant cells were taken by hospital researchers without her or her family’s consent. Researchers (not just there but everywhere) were…