Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks/
[by] Rebecca Skloot
- London: Pan Macmillan, 2017, c2010
- xii 431 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Include Index.
Rebecca Skloot's fascinating account is the story of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world forever. Balancing the beauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who owns the stuff our bodies are made of, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is an extraordinary journey in search of the soul and story of a real woman, whose cells live on today in all four corners of the world.
9781509854424 (pbk. ) UKP 8.99
= Biology
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Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951
Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography. African American women--History. Human experimentation in medicine--History.--United States HeLa cells. Cancer--Research. Cell culture. Medical ethics. Biology