Campus Wide Book Club Meeting

The Campuswide Book Club will meet on Monday, November 12th to discuss it’s latest title, Nine Lives. The author and some of the New Orleanians featured in the book will be in attendance.

Location: Medical Education Building, 1901 Perdido, Seminar rm. 4

Time: 12:15 – 1:30 pm Monday, November 12th

The LSUHSC Campuswide Book Club is sponsored by the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Multicultural Affairs.

Paying Patients for Their Tissue: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks

Available for checkout in the library

Do patients have rights to revenue streams should their tissue hold value for biomedical research? Science Journal’s Policy Forum discusses the ethics of tissue research as examined in Rebecca Skloot’s book the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which was LSUHSC’s first book club selection ealier this year. Physician-investigators weigh in on property rights in human tissue and investigators’ obligations to individuals from whom they seek tissue for research.

Full citation: Science 6 July 2012:
Vol. 337 no. 6090 pp. 37-38
DOI: 10.1126/science.1216888 (barcode & PIN required off campus)
POLICY FORUM - RESEARCH ETHICS
Paying Patients for Their Tissue: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
Robert D. Truog - Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA, Aaron S. Kesselheim Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA, Steven Joffe - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Campuswide Book Club Discussion

Now available in the library

 

The Book Club will gather on Monday, May 7^th from 12:15pm to 1:45pm in MEB Lecture Room 4 for a “brown bag” discussion of the book and its relevance for the work we all do. A distinguished panel featuring Drs. Corey Hebert, Cassandra Youmans, and John Estrada will lead this important discussion.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor, black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Broadway Paperbacks 2011), by Rebecca Skloot, is an enjoyable read that delves into issues of health care disparities and medical ethics. An award winning piece of non-fiction, this book was featured on over 60 critics’ best of the year lists and was awarded the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Award for Excellence in Science Writing, the 2011 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Audiobook, and a Medical Journalists’ Association Open Book Award.

Introducing the LSUHSC Campuswide Book Club

Now available in the library

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor, black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance.

The Isché Library is proud to announce that the inaugural LSUHSC Campuswide Book Club selection is now available in the Reserve Collection.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Broadway Paperbacks 2011), by Rebecca Skloot, is an enjoyable read that delves into issues of health care disparities and medical ethics. An award winning piece of non-fiction, this book was featured on over 60 critics’ best of the year lists and was awarded the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Award for Excellence in Science Writing, the 2011 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Audiobook, and a Medical Journalists’ Association Open Book Award.

The Book Club will gather on Monday, May 7^th from 12:15pm to 1:45pm in MEB Lecture Room 4 for a “brown bag” discussion of the book and its relevance for the work we all do.  A distinguished panel featuring  Drs. Corey Hebert, Cassandra Youmans, and John Estrada will lead this important discussion.

For more information contact drovar@lsuhsc.edu