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• Title:The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
  
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• Author/Creator:Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Crown Publishers, ©2010.
  

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  • Location: c.1  WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QZ201 .S5564 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 04-25-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951--Health.
  HeLa cells.
  Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography.
  Cell culture.
  African American women--History.
  Cancer--Research.
  Human experimentation in medicine--United States--History.
  Medical ethics.
  
• Description:x, 369 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781400052172
  
• Contents:Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph
  Deborah's Voice
  Pt. 1. Life
  1. Exam ... 1951
  2. Clover ... 1920-1942
  3. Diagnosis and Treatment ... 1951
  4. Birth of HeLa ... 1951
  5. "Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside" ... 1951
  6. "Lady's on the Phone" ... 1999
  7. Death and Life of Cell Culture ... 1951
  8. "A Miserable Specimen" ... 1951
  9. Turner Station ... 1999
  10. Other Side of the Tracks ... 1999
  11. "The Devil of Pain Itself" ... 1951
  Pt. 2. Death
  12. Storm ... 1951
  13. HeLa Factory ... 1951-1953
  14. Helen Lane ... 1953-1954
  15. "Too Young to Remember" ... 1951-1965
  16. "Spending Eternity in the Same Place" ... 1999
  17. Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable ... 1954-1966
  18. "Strangest Hybrid" ... 1960-1966
  19. "The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now" ... 1966-1973
  20. HeLa Bomb 1966
  21. Night Doctors 2000
  22. "The Fame She So Richly Deserves" ... 1970-1973
  Pt. 3. Immortality
  23. "It's Alive" ... 1973-1974
  24. "Least They Can Do" ... 1975
  25. "Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?" ... 1976-1988
  26. Breach of Privacy ... 1980-1985
  27. Secret of Immortality ... 1984-1995
  28. After London ... 1996-1999
  29. Village of Henriettas ... 2000
  30. Zakariyya ... 2000
  31. Hela, Goddess of Death ... 2000-2001
  32. "All That's My Mother" ... 2001
  33. Hospital for the Negro Insane ... 2001
  34. Medical Records ... 2001
  35. Soul Cleansing ... 2001
  36. Heavenly Bodies ... 2001
  37. "Nothing to Be Scared About" ... 2001
  38. Long Road to Clover ... 2009
  Where They Are Now.