The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Young Adult Edition
About this book
A middle-grade adaptation of same title with thread on writer's own difficulties. Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cervical cancer cells taken without her knowledge in 1951 treatment, have been vital in fighting polio, cancer, and viruses. Topics are race, bioethics, research, rights, family, and whether we control our cells.
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