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1 online resource. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-366) and index. |
| Contents |
A few words about this book -- Prologue: the woman in the photograph -- Deborah's voice -- Part One: Life -- The exam 1951 -- Clover 1920-1942 -- Diagnosis and treatment 1951 -- The birth of HeLa 1951 -- "Blackness be spreadin all inside" 1951 -- "Lady's on the phone" 1999 -- The death and life of cell culture 1951 -- "A miserable specimen" 1951 -- Turner Station 1999 -- The other side of the tracks 1999 -- "The devil of pain itself" 1951 -- Part Two: Death -- The storm 1951 -- The HeLa factory 1951-1953 -- Helen Lane 1953-1954 -- "Too young to remember" 1951-1965 -- "Spending eternity in the same place" 1999 -- Illegal, immoral, and deplorable 1954-1966 -- "Strangest hybrid" 1960-1966 -- "The most critical time on this earth is now" 1966-1973 -- The HeLa bomb 1966 -- Night doctors 2000 -- "The fame she so richly deserves" 1970-1973 -- Part Three: Immortality -- "It's alive" 1973-1974 -- "Least they can do" 1975 -- "Who told you you could sell my spleen?" 1976-1988 -- Breach of privacy 1980-1985 -- The secret of immortality 1984-1995 -- After London 1996-1999 -- A village of Henriettas 2000 -- Zakariyya 2000 -- Hela, goddess of death 2000-2001 -- "All that's my mother" 2001 -- The hospital for the Negro insane 2001 -- The medical records 2001 -- Soul cleansing 2001 -- Heavenly bodies 2001 -- "Nothing to be scared about" 2001 -- The long road to Clover 2009 -- Where they are now -- About the Henrietta Lacks Foundation -- Afterword -- Cast of characters -- Timeline -- Reading group guide. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web. |
| Awards |
Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, 2010; Wellcome Trust Book Prize, 2010. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health.
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Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Biography.
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African American women -- History.
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Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
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HeLa cells.
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Cancer -- Research.
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Cell culture.
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Medical ethics.
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African Americans. (PINES)461166
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Confidentiality -- ethics.
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Hela Cells. (GaAaGPL)773652
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History, 20th Century. (GaAaGPL)760149
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Human Experimentation -- ethics.
(GaAaGPL)755502
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Prejudice. (GaAaGPL)757381
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Tissue and Organ Procurement -- ethics.
(GaAaGPL)756879
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Tissue Donors. (GaAaGPL)840719
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United States. (GaAaGPL)43968
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EBSCOhost
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| Related To |
Online verison: Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. New York : Crown Publishers, ©2010 9780307589385 |
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Original 9781400052189 1400052181 (DLC) 2011288016 |
| ISBN |
9780307589385 (electronic bk.) |
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0307589382 (electronic bk.) |
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9781400052189 |
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1400052181 |
| OCLC # |
ebd32670519 |
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