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Author:

Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-

Title:

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Broadway Paperbacks,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 381 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Lacks, Henrietta,--1920-1951--Health.
Human experimentation in medicine--United States--History.
HeLa cells.
Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography.
African American women--History.
Cancer--Research.
Cell culture.
Medical ethics.
Lacks, Henrietta,--1920-1951.
Human experimentation in medicine--United States--History.
HeLa cells.
Cancer--Patients--Biography.
African American women--History.
Cancer--Research.
Cell culture.
Medical ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-366) and index.

Summary:

Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.

Indexed by:

Library Journal Starred, December 2009
Booklist starred, December 2009
Pub Weekly, October 2009
Kirkus Starred, January 2010
New York Times, February 2010
Library Journal Starred
Booklist starred
Pub Weekly

ISBN:

0329856820
9780329856823 (Follett bdg.)
1400052181
9781400052189 (pbk.)

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