Omar a Rodrigo (4 results)

Condition: New. ANGEL DE FUEGO.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Corral, Rodrigo (cover design); Sturman, Barbara (design); Quintero, Omar A. (photography) (illustrator). New condition glossy photographic softcover wraps. Includes Praise for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; Author Dedication; A Few Words About This Book; Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph; Deborah's Voice; Where They Are Now; About the Heenrietta Lacks Foundation; Afterword; Cast of Characters; Timeline; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; Reading Group Guide; and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of both black-and-white and color photographic plates. "Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same." "Extraordinary." - The New Yorker. "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 multimilllion-dollare industry that sells human biological materials, 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 control the 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. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? 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 book] captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences." "Vivid . Henrietta Lacks comes fully alove on the page .Immortal Life reads like a novel." -- Washington Post. "Skloot narrates the science lucidly, tracks the racial politics of medicine thoughtfully, and tells the Lacks family's often painful history with grace .Made my hair stand on end." -- New York Times Book Review. "Beautifully crafted .Thanks to the author's narrative skills, it is a tale tha one experiences rather than reads." -- Science. "Funny, tender .A cast of characters whose anger, generosity, pride, and improbable grace make them impossible to forget." -- Dallas Morning News.

Condition: New. 80 págs.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Extractos de mamuyo (Styrax ramirezii) | Análisis fisicoquímicos de fruto y actividad antimicrobiana | Rodrigo Omar Mendoza Tafolla (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 104 S. | Spanisch | 2017 | Editorial Académica Española | EAN 9783639532043 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.