The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
Author: Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
Edition: [1st pbk. ed.]
Publisher: New York : Broadway Paperbacks, c2011.
ISBN: 9781400052189 (pbk.)
1400052181 (pbk.)
Description: xiv, 381 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Subject: Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 Health.
Cancer Patients Virginia Biography.
African American women History.
Human experimentation in medicine United States History.
HeLa cells.
Cancer Research.
Cell culture.
Medical ethics.
Contents: pt. 1. Life. The exam, 1951 ; Clover, 1920-1942 ; Diagnosis and t reatment, 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 ; "A miserable specimen", 1951 ; Turner Station, 1999 ; The other side of the tracks, 1999 ; "The devil of pain itself", 1951 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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.
