HeLa Family Stories: Lawrence and Bobbette (A Short Memoir)

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HeLa Family Stories: Lawrence and Bobbette (A Short Memoir)

FROM THE FAMILY OF HENRIETTA LACKS: â€œHeLa Family Stories: Lawrence and Bobbetteâ€ is a short, collaborative memoir from Lawrence and Bobbette Lacks. For the first time, members of the Lacks family tell their own stories, from their own perspectives, in print to the reader.

This fascinating, first-hand look from inside the family of Henrietta Lacks includes new family photos and will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn, or learn more, about the woman behind the first immortal human cell line.

Lawrence Lacks was only sixteen years old when his mother, Henrietta Lacks, suffered a rapid and painful death from cervical cancer in the â€œcolored wardâ€ of Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951. More than two decades later, he and his wife Bobbette learned that the unique cancer cells responsible for Henriettaâ€™s death had been harvested from her body, cultivated in a Johns Hopkins laboratory, and distributed to researchers around the world as "HeLa" cells.

Lawrenceâ€™s memories, which include firsthand descriptions of daily life with his mother, Henrietta, are interwoven with Bobbetteâ€™s recollections of her own youth and of her attempts to save Lawrenceâ€™s motherless younger siblings from an abusive environment. Together they provide a new and vivid picture of Henrietta Lacks, the woman who brought HeLa cells to the world, and the struggles of the family she left behind.

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	HeLa Family Enterprise, LLC
Manufacturer	HeLa Family Enterprise, LLC
NumberOfPages	49
PublicationDate	2013-05-06
Publisher	HeLa Family Enterprise, LLC
ReleaseDate	2013-05-06
Studio	HeLa Family Enterprise, LLC

HeLa Family Stories: Lawrence and Bobbette (A Short Memoir)

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