2014-2015 Community Reads: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
SMU 2014-2015 Book Section During the 2014-15 academic year, all members of the SMU community, including students across the professions, alumni, staff, faculty, administrators, and the Board of Regents are invited to read Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
What are the “immortal cells”? Who owns them? Where are they now?
Do we as healthcare providers always “Do No Harm”? “Do Right”? “Socially Just?”
Copies of the book are available for loan at the Graziano Memorial Library on the Oakland campus and in the Learning Center libraries. E-lending may also occur. Copies of the book are also available in the bookstore on the Oakland campus.
Join us as we engage as a community of scholars and a community of conscience in reading and exploring together this true story that stirs the mind and heart to contemplate and learn about issues from the rights of the individual to genetic challenges to medical ethics to social justice.
This page turner has been on best seller lists for more than three years. Through ten years of sleuthing, Skloot brought to light this unknown story of an individual’s life and her very DNA, and the interface with scientists and their race for knowledge acquisition and cure.
Shared learning & exploration of issues raised in this fascinating read. Read more.
