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(Irresponsible, Unethical Framing Mar An Interesting Story)

『At its heart, this is the story of the Lacks family and the cell line that was spawned from one woman, Henrietta Lacks. It is also the story, in a vague sense, of what the research done on those cells meant to her daughter, Deborah Lacks. It purports to be more than this, and many have willingly, indeed gladly, swallowed those claims, but I think that they lack support. For example, it purports to be about the history of medicine, but it is not. Rather, it discusses events that took place at one institution (Johns Hopkins Hospital) in one time frame, and then distorts them and seeks to make the reader form broad generalizations about scientists and doctors, and their actions and morals.

For example, in the beginning of the book, where Henrietta goes to Johns Hopkins to be diagnosed, Rebbecca Skloot seems to relish mentioning the fact that Henrietta Lacks was in the colored ward. At the very least, she takes every possible opportunity to work it into the story, along with the fact that she was African-American and her doctors were white. These facts are, quite honestly, completely incidental to the story. If you read this book, the people with whom Rebbecca Skloot spoke reliably mentioned that she received the standard of care for her time, regardless of her race. Despite this fact, Ms. Skloot goes out of her way to mention that, quite often, patient care was different for African-Americans than whites. In every way, Rebbecca Skloot seems to have sought out anything that would provoke outrage in readers. In the end, it is not clear, whether this was a result of Rebbecca Skloot framing her book in this fashion to win the approval and trust of the family (which may or may not have been necessary to receive their permission for printing) or whether it was a malicious gambit to improve sales.

By the end, I found the book obnoxious on many levels.

First, the vilification of scientists and doctors who are providing the standard of care, calling into question their intentions and actions without even allowing most of them (or their families) to speak on their behalf, combined with her constant framing of Henrietta's treatment as a race issue, which it clearly wasn't if you are paying attention, seems guaranteed to cast the doctors in the light of the villain, while Henrietta's family, with their self-imposed medical conditions, as victims of the doctors, society, and, well, everyone but themselves.

Second, the repetition of the stories about Johns Hopkins doctors "stealing" patients off of the street (who were inevitably characterized as African-Americans, as opposed to the white doctors), without bothering to look up something as simple as the number of people who were reported missing near Johns Hopkins to similar urban neighborhoods without a major research and medical clinic, shows, clearly, her bias and intent. I guess, though, that would merely give her the opportunity to claim that most people weren't reported missing because they were poor African-Americans, and the white police didn't want to take the missing persons reports.

Third, the vilification of scientists, was annoying beyond measure. Many, many times in the course of the book, Rebbecca Skloot would present ridiculous headlines fron the past, where a member of the press would dramatically misunderstand the findings of a scientist and would make some insane, sordid claim that would instill a greater fear of science into lay people. Admittedly, this is also the fault of the scientists involved, as they really need to do a better job of making sure that the press understands the story. (Which won't stop the press and journalists from misrepresenting it ANYWAY, but may stop some accidents, at least.) And that is really where this book lets us down, as we have to sit through the exaggerated claims that are in this book. But, in the end, I guess that is the difference between journalists and scientists. Scientists PROVE things, journalists SELL things.

Fourth, as a good example of this framing problem, Rebbecca Skloot spends three or so pages talking about the sociopathic behavior that a disgraced scientist exhibited, including a support for eugenics. While it is true that there were some scientists that were in favor of eugenics, there were others, including Thomas Hunt Morgan, who spoke out, vehemently, against the practice. Moreover, it is blatantly misleading to paint eugenics as a solely scientific endeavor. Rather, it included such luminaries as Sir Francis Galton (an anthropologist and statistician), H.G. Wells, Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, future Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Emile Zola (a novelist), economists John Keynes, Irving Fisher, and Sidney Webb, and, notably, the journalists George Bernard Shaw and Lothrop Stoddard (and probably a lot more, but journalists don't tend to make history like people who DO things). None of this makes the practice, supported by so many scientists, any more excusable. If anything, their participation is what gave it such awful credibility, and they bear more responsbility than anyone. Nevertheless, none of these figures are mentioned, nor is the overwhelming popularity of the movement, worldwide. A little context would have been nice.

As I said at the outset, the irresponsible and inaccurate framing of the cultural surroundings of the book mar the story and make it impossible to really understand what happened and why. In the end, readers are left with an unjustified sense of outrage, and little new learned. At least, little that is accurate.
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(Best first book since I've read since Seabiscuit)

『I loved this book, I think that it is well worth reading. My Paternal grandmother was a poor white woman who also died of cervical cancer in the early 1950's before I was born. Although she wasn't a good parent, my father grieved for her deeply- only once in my life did he ever tell me about her, and he mentioned how painful and difficult the radiation treatment had been for her, and that he thought that the treatment had killed her, not the cancer. Now I understand better what she, and my father, must have gone through. The story of the HeLa cell line is fascinating. Like the author, I remember hearing about HeLa cells in biology class. I also remember reading an article about the cells that would not die, and how it seemed creepy, like a science fiction movie. The author portrays the human woman behind the HeLa cells in a compassionate way. The portrayal of the Lacks family and their struggles is deeply moving- people struggling in the face of poverty, prejuidice, and family abuse. The book is a compelling, can't put down read.』

(Heartbreaking and beautiful, powerful history and important study in ethics)

『The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a multi-layered work of history, ethics and, to some extent autobiography. The author, Rebecca Skloot not only resurrects Ms. Lacks from a dehumanizing anonymity (being referred merely as "Hela" or worse as "Helen Lane") but she also restores a measure of dignity to the Lacks family who spent decades knowing little of the astonishing contributions made by the cells that were taken, without consent (an important issue in this work for those contemplating buying it), from Mrs. Lacks before her death from cervical cancer in 1951. Although this is Ms Skloot's first book, she does a very fine job of juggling the complex, intertwining stories of Mrs Lacks, her children, science (cell lines, DNA, genetics, matters relating to consent for tissue "donation") and her own efforts to understand a woman she first met vicariously in a college biology class. Not wanting to be a plot spoiler, I end by saying only that I hope Mrs. Lacks family has received a measure of peace, Henrietta will receive her rightful place in history and that the scholarship fund mentioned by Ms. Skloot can indeed be set up for the Lacks family. Of Ms. Skloot, I hope we will be reading more of her works in the future.』

(I would have bought it, if only...)

『The sample was deeply engaging but I don't want to buy a crippled e-book. If text-to-speech hadn't been blocked, I would have bought it.』

(Absolutely compelling story)

『I read a glowing review of this book last week in the NY Times and downloaded it immediately on my Kindle. Once I started, I couldn't stop reading it. It is incredible that this woman's story has gone untold for so many years. Skloot does a skillful job of interweaving Henrietta Lacks story with Skloot's own quest of trying to uncover Lacks life and connect with Lacks surviving family members. This will no doubt end up being one of the best books of 2010...don't miss it!』
『Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.

Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the“colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biologicalmaterials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we controlthe stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, whodied in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?

Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down,The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lackscaptures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.』
『Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned inThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacksa fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --Tom Nissley

Amazon Exclusive: Jad Abumrad ReviewsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Jad Abumrad is host and creator of the public radio hitRadiolab, now in its seventh season and reaching over a million people monthly.Radiolabcombines cutting-edge production with a philosophical approach to big ideas in science and beyond, and an inventive method of storytelling. Abumrad has won numerous awards, including a National Headliner Award in Radio and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Award. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review ofThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks:

Honestly, I can't imagine a better tale.

A detective story that's at once mythically large and painfully intimate.

Just the simple facts are hard to believe: that in 1951, a poor black woman named Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer, but pieces of the tumor that killed her--taken without her knowledge or consent--live on, first in one lab, then in hundreds, then thousands, then in giant factories churning out polio vaccines, then aboard rocket ships launched into space. The cells from this one tumor would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry and become a foundation of modern science--leading to breakthroughs in gene mapping, cloning and fertility and helping to discover how viruses work and how cancer develops (among a million other things). All of which is to say: the science end of this story is enough to blow one's mind right out of one's face.

But what's truly remarkable about Rebecca Skloot's book is that we also get the rest of the story, the part that could have easily remained hidden had she not spent ten years unearthing it: Who was Henrietta Lacks? How did she live? How she did die? Did her family know that she'd become, in some sense, immortal, and how did that affect them? These are crucial questions, because science should never forget the people who gave it life. And so, what unfolds is not only a reporting tour de force but also a very entertaining account of Henrietta, her ancestors, her cells and the scientists who grew them.

The book ultimately channels its journey of discovery though Henrietta's youngest daughter, Deborah, who never knew her mother, and who dreamt of one day being a scientist.

As Deborah Lacks and Skloot search for answers, we're bounced effortlessly from the tiny tobacco-farming Virginia hamlet of Henrietta's childhood to modern-day Baltimore, where Henrietta's family remains. Along the way, a series of unforgettable juxtapositions: cell culturing bumps into faith healings, cutting edge medicine collides with the dark truth that Henrietta's family can't afford the health insurance to care for diseases their mother's cells have helped to cure.

Rebecca Skloot tells the story with great sensitivity, urgency and, in the end, damn fine writing. I highly recommend this book.--Jad Abumrad

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(Do You Eat? Read this Book!)

『I was expecting a diatribe, a full-force blast against agri-business and the factory farm, more along the lines of what we hear from the more strident vegans and animal rights activists. Pollan, however, is much too skilled as a journalist and writer for that. If his journeys lead him to both Food Hell and Food Heaven, they also show him that there is no clear, simple, and easy path to salvation when it comes to eating.

"The Omnivore's Dilemma" is Pollan's attempt to answer some important questions about the food we eat, which I have unfairly boiled down to: Where does our food come from, and how did it get from there to us? His quest takes him through the horrifying house of cards that is industrial farming, ranching, and food processing, a vision that will either open your eyes or make you screw them tightly shut, because most of us don't have a lot of choice when it comes, for example, to eschewing the monoculture corn that finds its way into most of what we eat and much of what we don't. The first of the four meals in the subtitle is of McDonald's fast food, eaten with his family but hardly "shared," as they each consumed a different choice of foods, all the while driving along the highway, as many fast food meals are eaten in America today.

Skipping ahead, the fourth and final meal was as personal and local as Pollan could make it: meat from the wild pig he shot himself, bread made with wild yeasts, produce from his garden, mushrooms gathered by his own hands, and more, all crafted into a gourmet feast that he shared at the table with friends, family, and good conversation. With apparently honest and transparent struggles, he experiences both the attraction of vegetarianism and the joy of the hunt in preparation for what he called his Perfect Meal. Not a meal for everyone, nor for every day, but a meal of grace, embodying the ultimate answer to his questions.

In between is Organic, what Pollan calls pastoral food, in contrast to industrial. This required two meals, because "organic" isn't what it used to be. Big Organic, symbolized by the Whole Foods Market, is the organic movement gone mainstream. It is proof that we do, after all, have some choice about where our food comes from. That we can now buy organic food at Wal-Mart says a lot for the power of the consumer. But this victory came at a price: our 1960's-bred image of the small, family, organic farm remains only on the patently misleading pictures on the food packages. In order to become a mass-market commodity, organic food has taken on many of the harmful practices of the industrial system, from migrant labor to "free range" chickens that never see the outdoors. It's still a good thing -- organic farming is much better for the land and produces food that is at least somewhat more nutritious -- but has it lost its soul?

Joel Salatin would say it has. The section on Salatin's Polyface Farm in Virginia is worth the price of the book all by itself. This is Food Heaven on earth. The Salatin family, beginning with Joel's parents, took an abused and exhausted plot of land and healed it ("we are in the redemption business"), turning it into a showpiece of truly sustainable agriculture, one that produces a great deal of food while enriching, rather than depleting the land, and where the people, the animals, the plants, the smaller creatures, and the soil play out their interdependence to the advantage of all.

Hope for the future of food lies not in one particular system, Pollan says, but in supporting a variety of approaches. "As in the fields, nature provides the best model for the marketplaces, and nature never puts all her eggs in one basket. The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails -- when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away -- we'll still have a way to feed ourselves."

Far from being the jeremiad I had expected, Pollan's careful investigations and respectful reporting make "The Omnivore's Dilemma" a book that everyone who eats should read.
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(Excellent survey of the American food industry)

『Michael Pollan entertains while he informs, surprises, and disillusions most hopes you might have had about the American food industry. This book is a must read if you are at all interested in what you eat, and how its production is affecting nature. Pollan follows the life of both a cow and a chicken through their confined lives in high producing typical american farms- which proves to be more revolting and dangerous that one might have thought. He also explains why all those products at the grocery store have some tangent of corn in it: "high fructose corn syrup" etc. He also documents some small organic farmers and the processes they use to create sustainable farming. How the food industry reflects the general American mentality should become increasingly obvious, as you become more aware of what you eat and where it comes from.

This book is an excellent way to make a visit to the grocery store a little less abstract.』

(A provocative and thoughtful examination of food in America)

『Michael Pollan mesmerizes with his exciting examination of the possible sources of our food in America. I love food and for me this book constituted a celebration of it's complexity and possibility. Although Pollan is obviously biased he takes a calculated look at the propositions of both sides, even though through the novel we follow him to his inevitable arrival at his own perceptions. I highly recommend this book to all readers, especially those who are politically conscious or who just get inordinately excited about food the way I do.』

(Great read about agriculture buisness)

『A great book that reads well and talks about how agriculture buisness ultimately affects our health. Recommended.』

(Anyone who eats food should read this!)

『In The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan explores the current landscape of procuring food in America by actively tracing four meals, through intermediary energy forms, to the ultimate source of their energy, the sun. He explicates all processes and their consequences with regards to creating meals from McDonald's, Whole Foods (big industrial organic), a self-sustained farm, and one that he obtained every component of himself (hunting and gathering).

His active investigative journalism as well as his open mind and willingness to learn leads him to experience firsthand the food creation process by participating in all methods of creating food (that is, those that he is allowed to participate in) and to read everything on the subject from the biology of corn reproduction to the philosophy of eating animals, allowing him to understand food as well as possible. His travels lead him to farms across the country, where he watches the farm processes and participates in them (including driving a tractor as well as killing and eviscerating chickens), CAFO's, and to learn how to hunt wild pig and develop a sixth sense for seeing and gathering mushrooms. He engages in deep discussions with experts in all aspects of food to understand their perspective and shed a different light on food as we see it - that is, food without the hidden negative consequences. This active participation and discussion straight from the source as well as thorough research leads him to draw well-reasoned conclusions from his experiences. He demystifies the supermarket and articulates the hidden consequences of our food choices.

Pollan conveys his findings and opinions fluidly and his experiences candidly. He imparts the reader with a greater wisdom and confidence in making food choices (although it is disenchanting that the system in place does not necessarily even allow you to make the choices you want to...), but he is not preachy. I found Pollan's writing to be clear, interesting, and sincere. I highly recommend this book.』
『A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us— whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.』


Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945.	Elsie Lacks, Henrietta’s older daughter, about five years before she was committed to Crownsville State Hospital, with a diagnosis of “idiocy.”	Deborah Lacks at about age four.	The home-house where Henrietta was raised, a four-room log cabin in Clover, Virginia, that once served as slave quarters. (1999)	Main Street in downtown Clover, Virginia, where Henrietta was raised, circa 1930s.

Margaret Gey and Minnie, a lab technician, in the Gey lab at Hopkins, circa 1951. Deborah with her children, LaTonya and Alfred, and her second husband, James Pullum, in the mid-1980s. In 2001, Deborah developed a severe case of hives after learning upsetting new information about her mother and sister. Deborah and her cousin Gary Lacks standing in front of drying tobacco, 2001. The Lacks family in 2009.

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