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The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

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cdoubet's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0


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rachelkreadsbookz's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.75


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hshinn21's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Truly one of the best, most informative, and gut-wrenching books I've ever read. I'm glad it's become famous because I think everyone should know this story. 

But you should know: this book might be difficult to read. It was for me at some points. It talks frankly, but not grotesquely, of many terrible things: and this is part of what makes it so important. I started listing content warnings below and the list looks a little bit overwhelming at first glance. So know your limits, and be prepared. 

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creationwing's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

I wasn't a huge fan of the attempts at Chinese and Austrian accents by the audiobook reader. It felt off in a book with themes so closely tied to facing racism. It didn't help that they weren't very well done, either.

There were moments when the book seemed a little too voyeuristic for my taste; I'm not sure that all the details included were necessary for me to learn about this historic figure, her family's struggles, and have understanding of the suffering and unjustice.

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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becca_w_'s review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75


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3.5


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marenk's review against another edition

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informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book was so informative! It talks about Henrietta Lacks, her life and the life of her family, but also about so much more. It discusses racism in medicine and the rights of patients and doctors (mostly regarding tissue samples).
Before reading this book, I expected it to be very scientific and hard to read, but that honestly wasn‘t the case at all! It is easy to read and you really don‘t need to know a lot about medicine (I didn‘t either).
I recommend this book to everyone who is interested in medicine, genetics and/or the ethical code of medicine!

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