Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

This book is not what I was expecting. It does give the basic scientific background necessary to understand the story, and a little more than basics are presented so that someone who isn't a biologist but already gets the basics can still enjoy it and learn from it. It's got a lot of info about the family and how they have been affected by the cells, also. This is a very interesting true story presented in a very readable manner. It's a story I think everyone should know, especially because there are countless others like it that no one has written a book about. This one is pretty monumental for medicine, though.