Rebecca Sklot

The timeless life of Henrietta Lux (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The journalist Rebecca Sklot tells through this book the biography of a poor black woman from Baltimore, she visits Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951 to receive cervical cancer treatment, as doctors without her knowledge eradicate biopsies of her uterine tissue and try to plant cells, these exceptional cells grow and continue to multiply on Reverse all the failed attempts that preceded it. Its cells later played a vital role in developing the polio vaccine and detecting the secrets of cancer and viruses, and helped fertilization within the laboratory, cloning and drawing genes maps; It has been sold by billions. Lux died after eight months and was buried in a forgotten grave without witnessing, unaware that its cells would change the course of medicine. By achieving a magician, the writer transmits the marginalized history of Henrietta Lux and her family in this book, which she published after eleven years of research and investigations. Soon, she turned into a film produced by the media, Oprah Winfrey, who played the role of Henrietta's daughter (Debora) after being affected by this biography of pain and persecution. The book remained 75 weeks in the list of the best -selling narrative books in the New York Times, translated into more than 20 languages ¿¿around the world, and received a wide range of critics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Takween Publisher
• Seitenzahl: 542
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2024
• Arabisch
• ISBN-13: 9789921775167
• Artikelnr.: 71468629