Rebecca Skloot's book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks explores these issues, without taking advantage of them herself. ... Although Rebecca Skloot mentions in her afterword that the Lacks family has little to no legal rights pertaining to this issue now, she says this is partly because the statute of limitations has passed (328). ... That was Rebecca Skloot's job: getting the story out. ...

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