RebeccaSkloot.com: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Tour Part 1

Author Rebecca Skloot (RebeccaSkloot.com) hit the road on January 29, 2010 for The Immortal Book Tour, a four-month self-organized grassroots tour for her newly published New York Times bestselling book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, about the immortal HeLa cells: 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.

Here, a video trailer with footage and photos from Part I of The Immortal Tour, featuring footage of Henrietta Lacks's family discussing the book, Henrietta, and HeLa.

To find out where The Immortal Tour is going next, and whether it's coming to your town, visit rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/book-tour. For more information and additional audio/video special features related to The Immortal Life, visit Rebeccaskloot.com. There you will also find interviews, reviews, and more. See also Henriettalacksfoundation.org. And stay tuned for the next installment of the tour.

Video by David Prete (Davidprete.com)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• HeLa
• HeLa Cells
• Rebecca Skloot
• David Prete
• Bioethics
• Book Tours
• Publishing

[feliciajuly]

I'm reading this book right now and it's amazing!!!

[waffiki]

thank you so much Rebecca Skloot.

[gell7]

u done good skoot i used 2live in memphis right in my backyard i miss my old stomping