One Book - One Town
HeLa Cells and the Future of Cancer Research. Tuesday, March 15th @ 7pm.
African-American farmer and mother Henrietta Lacks’s cells (called HeLa) have changed cancer treatment. Scott Thornton, MD, Co-Medical Director of Bridgeport Hospital’s Norma F. Pfriem Cancer Institute, and Jerry Malefatto, MD, a medical oncologist with Oncology Associates Bridgeport, will discuss new chemotherapy and surgical treatments that are on the horizon in the battle against cancer.
Trumbull Library Community Room. Register online or call 203-452-5197
Friday, March 18th @7pm.
In 1952 doctors took Henrietta Lacks’ cancerous cells without asking, and though they had no way of knowing, sixty years later those HeLa cells have replicated to launch a multimillion-dollar industry. Could the same thing happen today? Our panel of experts will discuss the evolution of medical ethics, and medicine itself, since the 50s as they attempt to answer who owns your body?
Library Community Room. Register online or call 203-452-5197.
The Immortal Life of American Health Care Inequalities. Tuesday, March 22th @ 7pm.
Ideally, all Americans would be treated equally in modern medicine, differently than the inequalities of Henrietta Lacks’ day in the colored ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital. In conversation with the audience, our discussion leaders will explore the disparities, some well-known and some surprising, in how people are treated in clinical care, medical research, and how it effects their health outcomes.
Leaders: Heather Munro Prescott, Ph.D., Professor of History, Central CT State University; and Laura Stark, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Science in Society and Sociology, Wesleyan University.
Dr. Stark also was one of the fact checkers for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Trumbull Library Conference Room. Register online or call 203-452-5197.
BOOK DISCUSSIONS
Come together with fellow Trumbull residents for meaningful discussions on topics found in the 2011 One Book One Town selection.
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Morning Book and Brunch. Wed. Mar. 9, 11am
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Evening Book and Beverage. Thurs. Mar. 10, 7pm
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Thurs. Mar. 24, 2pm.
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Fri. Apr. 8, 11am.
23 Priscilla Pl., Trumbull, CT.
Trumbull Library, 33 Quality Street Trumbull, CT 06611 (203) 452-5197
Fairchild-Nichols Memorial Library 1718 Huntington Turnpike, Trumbull, CT 06611, (203) 452-5196
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