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The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksText Overview

We will read Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and a series of companion texts. The titles, authors, and locations of these texts are indicated in the Unit Text List.

Core

  • Tradebook
    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, Crown Publishing Group, 2010
  • Digital Access
    • Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine, Kadir Nelson, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2018
  • Unit Reader
    • “HeLa,” L. Lamar Wilson, Carolina Wren Press, 2008
  • Multimedia
    • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, George C. Wolfe, HBO, 2017

Optional

  • Unit Reader
    • “Henrietta Lacks, HeLa Cells, and Cell Culture Contamination,” Brendan P. Lucey, Walter A. Nelson-Rees, and Grover M. Hutchins, College of American Pathologists, 2009

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