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A short summary of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Read the full book summary, an in-depth analysis of Henrietta’s daughter Deborah Lacks, and explanations of important quotes from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
A summary of Epigraph, Prologues, & Part 1: Chapters 1 & 2 in Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and what it means.
A summary of Part 1: Chapters 3–7 in Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Explanation of the famous quotes in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
Why was a cell sample taken from Henrietta Lacks’ tumor without her consent? Why doesn’t the Lacks family trust doctors? On what conditions does Deborah agree to work with Rebecca Skloot?
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot describes her joint quest with Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah, to research and tell Henrietta Lacks’s story in a way that fully wrestles with the injustices done to the Lacks family in the name of scientific progress.
A list of all the characters in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks characters include: Deborah Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, Henrietta Lacks, George Gey, David "Day" Lacks.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Rebecca Skloot. I’ve spent years staring at that photo, wondering what kind of life she led, what happened to her children, and what she’d think about cells from her cervix living on forever—bought, sold, packaged, and shipped by the trillions to laboratories around the world.
A summary of Part 3: Chapters 37 & 38 & Afterword in Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and what it means.
