The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - Official Trailer

The book that's been on everyone's "Best of" lists, including Amazon's Best Book of 2010, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, is intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, it captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.

"Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same."

For more information about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as well as book special features, resources, answers to frequently asked questions, a discussion forum and more, visit http://www.rebeccaskloot.com

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[sniper987]

White people stole her sells and are continuing to make money off it, sad really...

[samb5060sb]

How can Henrietta's family not be able to afford ANYTHING?

[Chuck Norris]

loud song in the back :d

[swhiteeagle84]

Awesome book! Just finished it, great job on it!

[dogetty]

Based on what I understand about Statistical Mathematics and how a Scientific Hypothesis has to be reproduced and proved by others before it becomes computable as a statistic from which we create equations. Congruent to that Henrietta's cells are so far off the norm it is hard to consider them include-able in regular equations since they were contaminating other experiments and had no equal running tests to compare a diseased tissue with a normal tissue response

[dogetty]

I that case they had to isolate her cells. Also they had to go and map Henrietta's gene pool later on to confirm where Henrietta's cells were damaging other laboratory investments

[dogetty]

Money, money, money. If it was not costing them money it would not have mattered, it seems to me. Debora was even warned to move her grave because Henrietta was so important to science. But, I'm not sure they would have taken Henrietta's body since

DNA testing was not used in court until dog blood was used to convict a murderer. They just came to 'sneak' her families blood to do gene mapping.

[dogetty]

At that point anyone benefiting from the blood samples taken from Henrietta's gene pool was committing theft and should be held liable and if it is considered

public property it should not be boosting 'for profit' private incorporation profit margins. At the point they took the families blood, all involved, but the Lakes family, knew

how much money was at steak and it is where they should sue for public domain ownership, in a class action, and fund social insurance so all could benefit.

[dogetty]

INFORMED CONSENT, EMINENT DOMAIN, GOVERNMENT REGULATION, PERMISSION TO TREAT, DEFENSIVE MEDICINE, ABANDONED TISSUE,

all interpreted but has the legal interpretation been adjusted since since the OUTSOURCING of OUR JOBS... and FOREIGN CORPORATIONS not contributing

a substantial percentage to society form the increased purse sizes is the basic problem here. Back then the jobs were here..

[dogetty]

Bankers who lend world wide don't care about us becoming a third world impoverished outcry. We should start a Plasma centers and protest them making millions when we don't even get an hourly wage sitting there waiting to donate.In Washington movie producers cannot make us work for free any more just to be an EXTRA while hoping to be NOTICED.