Rebecca Skloot
I LOVED this book. It was so very interesting. I don't know if you would love it if science wasn't your favorite subject, but I think you still might. This was such an interesting story of the woman behind so many life changing discoveries in American and world-wide medicine. I love that this book was also so much more than medicine, it talks about race relations 1950s, family relationships, and race relations now. I am so glad that Ms. Skloot finally told the Lacks' family story! I am so sad that the Lacks' family story is what it is and I wonder what it would have taken to really change it. It is overwhelming, but incredibly interesting to me to consider the many ethical sides to medical research. Ms. Skloot did an excellent job of personalizing the things that in medicine we generally try desperately to make anonymous. Like I said as a loud and proud member of the nerd herd for as long as I can remember, I thought this was a really great book!
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