The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks的細胞改變了醫學史，也改變了她家族的命運。這位普通的黑人婦女在1950年代接受治療時，癌細胞被取出並培養成「HeLa」細胞——成為疫苗與無數研究的基石。然而，她的家人多年後才得知真相。《The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks》不只是科學史的一章，更是對尊嚴、知情權與科學倫理的深刻提問。

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman’s cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne. ‘No dead woman has done more for the living .

. . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.’ – Hilary Mantel, GuardianHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa.

Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta’s family did not learn of her ‘immortality’ until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . .

. Rebecca Skloot’s fascinating account is the story of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world forever. Balancing the beauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who owns the stuff our bodies are made of, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is an extraordinary journey in search of the soul and story of a real woman, whose cells live on today in all four corners of the world.