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• Title:The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
  
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• Author/Creator:Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
  
• Published/Created:London : Macmillan, 2010.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QZ201 .S5564 2010a
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 06-09-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951--Health.
  Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography.
  African American women--Virginia--Biography.
  Human experimentation in medicine--United States--History--20th century.
  HeLa cells.
  Medical ethics--United States--History--20th century.
  
• Medical Subjects: HeLa Cells
  
• Description:xii, 368 pages ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta herself remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780230750210 (pbk.)
  0230750214 (pbk.)
  9780230748699 (hbk.)
  0230748694 (hbk.)