The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Rebecca Skloot is an award winning science writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover; and many other publications. She specializes in narrative science writing and has explored a wide range of topics, including goldfish surgery, tissue ownership rights, race and medicine, food politics, and packs of wild dogs in Manhattan. She has worked as a correspondent for WNYC’s Radiolab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. She and her father, Floyd Skloot, are co-editors of The Best American Science Writing 2011 . You can read a selection of Rebecca Skloot's magazine writing on the Articles page of this site.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , Skloot's debut book, took more than a decade to research and write, and instantly became a New York Times best-seller. She has been featured on numerous television shows, including CBS Sunday Morning, The Colbert Report, Fox Business News, and others, and was named One of Five Surprising Leaders of 2010 by the Washington Post. The Immortal Life was chosen as a best book of 2010 by more than 60 media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, O the Oprah Magazine, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, People Magazine, New York Times, and U.S. News and World Report; it was named The Best Book of 2010 by Amazon.com and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. It has won numerous awards, including the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and two Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and Best Debut Author of the year. It has received widespread critical acclaim, with reviews appearing in The New Yorker, Washington Post, Science, and many others. Dwight Garner of the New York Times said, "I put down Rebecca Skloot's first book, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," more than once. Ten times, probably. Once to poke the fire. Once to silence a pinging BlackBerry. And eight times to chase my wife and assorted visitors around the house, to tell them I was holding one of the most graceful and moving nonfiction books I've read in a very long time …It has brains and pacing and nerve and heart.” See the press page of this site for more reactions to the book.

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出版者:Crown Publishing Group
作者:Rebecca Skloot
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页数:384
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出版时间:2010-2-2
价格:USD 26.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781400052172
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  • 传记 
  • 科学 
  • 社会 
  • Science 
  • Biography 
  • 美国 
  • 历史 
  • LifeScience 
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.

Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?

Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.

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内容细节方面我就不说了,很值得一读。首先这是纪实,而非传记或者小说。作者用详细的描述将读者带入了海拉生活的年代,环境,这些细节都是作者经过考证而写出的,而非很多不认真的作者随意想象,揣摩;作者经过十年时间写就一书,期间面对种族隔阂,生活来源甚至生命危险等困...  

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原发于2012.10.24 第一财经日报 海瑞塔·拉克斯,参与研究了染色体,参与测试了细胞在太空环境下的变化,参与研发了小儿麻痹症的疫苗。过去的几十年里,她在医学和生物学上的贡献价值数十亿美元,推动了一系列重大的研究。但是,你在女科学家的名录上找不到她,相关研究论文也...  

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原发于2012.10.24 第一财经日报 海瑞塔·拉克斯,参与研究了染色体,参与测试了细胞在太空环境下的变化,参与研发了小儿麻痹症的疫苗。过去的几十年里,她在医学和生物学上的贡献价值数十亿美元,推动了一系列重大的研究。但是,你在女科学家的名录上找不到她,相关研究论文也...  

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原发于2012.10.24 第一财经日报 海瑞塔·拉克斯,参与研究了染色体,参与测试了细胞在太空环境下的变化,参与研发了小儿麻痹症的疫苗。过去的几十年里,她在医学和生物学上的贡献价值数十亿美元,推动了一系列重大的研究。但是,你在女科学家的名录上找不到她,相关研究论文也...  

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内容细节方面我就不说了,很值得一读。首先这是纪实,而非传记或者小说。作者用详细的描述将读者带入了海拉生活的年代,环境,这些细节都是作者经过考证而写出的,而非很多不认真的作者随意想象,揣摩;作者经过十年时间写就一书,期间面对种族隔阂,生活来源甚至生命危险等困...  

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如果是杂志文章,冲击力会大得多,不过已经很好了

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所谓科学类传记文学,中间穿插着学刊杂志上截取的片段,行文中不时流露作为白人的优越感。十年一书写成这样,不如回去写学科报告。

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最后坑爹的写了近千字。。。。。

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她的家人因为对医学不了解 舆论新闻因为抢热度 没有人想去向他们解释什么 医学方面对于consent这个概念的模棱两可 医学的不发达 黑人种族在上世纪五十年代的美国的待遇不公 各种因素 导致最后的悲剧

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Attractive beginning, boring ending

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