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=The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks= toc by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is the book chosen by RCC to be read by students, faculty and staff. Even if the book is not incorporated into a classroom curriculum, we recommend that all students read the book and participate in campus-wide discussion with other students, faculty and staff. Please take part in the discussion to help create a unified campus. We look forward to your ideas, thoughts, and questions!

=The Book= The book that Roxbury Community College has chosen for the first One Book, One Campus selection is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This book is about Henrietta Lacks, a young, African-American mother of five, who died at the age of 31 in 1951 of an unusually aggressive form of cervical cancer. During the operation to remove her tumor, her doctor removed a sample of the cancerous tumor without her knowledge or consent. Those cells, which mysteriously never died, have been used over the past sixty-one years in research that resulted in a cure for polio and a myriad of other scientific discoveries that would not have been possible without research using HeLa cells, as they came to be known. This story is about Henrietta’s children, as well as about those scientists and pharmaceutical companies who used her cells to make millions. Henrietta’s story came to light because a 16-year old, disaffected student, who learned about HeLa in her community college biology class, was inspired to become a scientist because of Henrietta’s story.

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Print //Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks//: RC265.6.L24 S55 2010

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Rebecca Skloot is an award winning science writer whose work has appeared in //The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; Discover////;// and many other publications. She specializes in narrative science writing and has explored a wide range of topics, including goldfish surgery, tissue ownership rights, race and medicine, food politics, and packs of wild dogs in Manhattan. She has worked as a correspondent for WNYC’s //Radiolab// and PBS’s Nova //ScienceNOW.// She and her father, Floyd Skloot, are co-editors of //The Best American Science Writing 2011//. Source: “Bio,” //Rebecca Skloot,// 2010. Web. Aug. 2011.
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 * HeLa cells
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 * General**

//African American Voices: African American Health Educators Speak Out: // RA448.5 .N4 A44 1995

//Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present //: R853.H8 W37 2006


 * Cancer**

//The Biology of Cancer//: RC262 .B47 2007

//Cancer : the role of genes, lifestyle, and environment: //RC262 .P35 2005

//Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer: // RC275.M85 2010


 * Genetics**

//Biotechnology : our future as human beings and citizens//: TP248.23.B5626 2009

//Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age : why we need a genetic bill of rights//: TP248.23 .R55 2005

//African American Bioethics : culture, race, and identity //: R724 .S937 2007
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//Medical Ethics: Current Controversies //: R724 .M29273 2000

 //The Stem Cell Controversy : debating the issues: // QH587 .S723 2006

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif';">Taking Sides. Clashing views on bioethical issues: //<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif';">R724 .T35 2010

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Henrietta Lacks Foundation Foundation set up for the family members of Henrietta Lacks. Rebecca Skloot Authors website.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Henrietta Everlasting: 1950s Cells Still Alive, Helping Science Visual timeline of the use of HeLa cells from Wired Magazine. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Five Reasons Henrietta Lacks is the Most Important Woman in Medical History Popular Science Magazine's article. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells An article from the Smithsonian Magazine.
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