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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
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Title:The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
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Author/Creator:Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
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Published/Created:New York : Crown Publishers, ©2010.
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Location:
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Call Number: QZ201 .S5564 2010
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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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.
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Description:x, 369 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9781400052172
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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.