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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.

Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- (author. ).

Summary:

"Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than twenty years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same"--Cover.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781400052189
  • ISBN: 9781400052172
  • Physical Description: x, 381 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some col.) ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-358) and index.

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Subject: Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 > Health.
Cancer > Patients > Virginia.
Women, Black > History
Human experimentation in medicine > United States > History.
HeLa cells.
Cancer > Research.
Cell culture.
Cytology > Research > United States.
Medical ethics > United States > Case studies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Vanderhoof Public Library.

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