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''The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'' (2010) is a non-fiction book by American author Rebecca Skloot. It is about Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line, known as HeLa, that came from her cervical cancer cells in 1951. The book is notable for its science writing and dealing with ethical issues of race and class in medical research. Rebecca Skloot writes in her book that some of the information was taken from the journal of Deborah Lacks, Henrietta Lacks's daughter, as well as from "archival photos and documents, scientific and historical research"(xiii). It is Skloot's first book. In May 2010, it was announced that Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball in conjunction with HBO plan to create a film version.〔("Oprah and Alan Ball to Make Film of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for HBO" ), May 12, 2010.〕 ==Academic and critical reception== Critical reception was largely favorable. It was named a best book of the year by more than 60 media outlets, including ''New York Times'', ''Oprah'', ''NPR'', and ''Entertainment Weekly''.〔 Lisa Margonelli reviewing in ''The New York Times Book Review'' said: Dwight Garner of ''The New York Times'' wrote: One reviewer for ''The New Atlantis'', while mostly positive about the book, questioned its ethical arguments about tissue markets and informed consent, and claimed to have found factual errors: one related to the role of HeLa cells in early space missions, and, another related to a statement in the book that says "if all HeLa cells ever grown could have been gathered on a scale, their total weight would have measured more than 50 million metric tons. Skloot addresses this question on her website, where she explains how the 50 million metric tons figure was calculated, saying "That calculation was based on the way HeLa cells are known to divide (specifically how often they double their numbers) and the amount of time they’d been alive at the time the calculation was made." She clarifies that "it was a hypothetical calculation because that many cells couldn’t have been saved and put on a scale." She also says that the figures "were verified before the book went to press by the scientists who did the original calculations, and outside experts." 〔("On The Science of HeLa Cells" ), by Rebecca Skloot, captured October 1, 2012〕 The book was awarded the National Academies Best Book of the Year Award, the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Young Adult Science Book award, and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding work of fiction or non-fiction on the theme of health and medicine. It also won the Heartland Prize for non-fiction,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2010-Chicago-Tribune-Heartland-Prize-Winners.aspx# )〕 among others, including a Salon Book Award, and a 100 ''New York Times'' Notable Books of the Year. The paperback edition had spent 75 weeks on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list. The book was adopted as a common reading text at more than 125 universities and was widely taught in high school, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral classrooms. In September 2015, schools in Knox County, Tennessee were faced with demands from a parent that the book be removed from Knox County classrooms and libraries; the parent in question alleged that the scene in which Lacks discovered her tumor was depicted in a "pornographic" way.〔( Henrietta Lacks biographer Rebecca Skloot responds to US parent over 'porn' allegation ), by Alison Flood, in ''the Guardian''; published September 9, 2015; retrieved September 11, 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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