Thursday, May 31, 2012

Engaging The Immortal Life


Welcome to your first assignment for Enduring Questions, Fall 2012.  In this post, you will find links to about 30 question sets about Rebecca Skloot's 2010 work of non-fiction, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

After you've read the passages listed below, click on the links, read the corresponding questions and comments other readers may have left (click on the "comment" button beneath each post to see them), and then join the discussion (or initiate it).

Immortal Life:  A Few Words
Immortal Life:  Epigraph
Immortal Life:  Prologue
Immortal Life:  Deborah's Voice
Ch. 2:  Clover ... 1920-1942
Ch. 3, #1: Diagnosis and Treatment ... 1951
Ch. 3, #2: Diagnosis and Treatment ... 1951
Ch. 4: The Birth of HeLa ... 1951
Ch. 5: "Blackness be Spreadin' All Inside" ... 1951
Ch. 6: "Lady's on the Phone" ... 1999
Ch. 7: The Death and Life of Cell Culture ... 1951
Ch. 8: A Miserable Specimen ... 1951
Ch. 14: Helen Lane ... 1951
Ch. 15: "Too Young to Remember" ... 1951-1965
Ch. 16, #1: "Spending Eternity in the Same Place" ... 1999
Ch. 16, #2:  "Spending Eternity in the Same Place" ... 1999
Ch. 16, #3: "Spending Eternity in the Same Place" ... 1999
Ch. 17: Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable ... 1954-1966
Ch. 25: "Who Told You You Can Sell My Spleen?" ...1976-1988
Ch. 26: "Breach of Privacy" ...1980-1985
Ch. 27: The Secret of Immortality ... 1984-1995
Ch. 28: After London ... 1996-1999
Ch. 31: HeLa, Goddes of Death ... 2000-2001
Ch. 32: All That's My Mother ... 2001
Ch. 33, #1:  The Hospital for Negro Insane ... 2001
Ch. 33, #2: The Hospital for Negro Insane ... 2001
Ch. 34:  The Medical Records ... 2001
Ch. 36: Heavenly Bodies ... 2001
Immortality:  Afterword, #1
Immortality:  Afterword, #2

(Stay tuned:  more links and questions are coming soon!)

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