TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skloot,Rebecca
TI  - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
SN  - 9781410427922
U1  - 616.027 SKL 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Lacks, Henrietta,
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American women
KW  - History
KW  - Human experimentation in medicine
KW  - United States
KW  - HeLa cells
KW  - Research
KW  - Cell culture
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Large type books
KW  - MEDICAL / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 571-615)
N2  - Henrietta Lacks, a poor southern tobacco farmer, was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medical research. Known to science as HeLa, the first "immortal" human cells grown in culture are still alive today, and have been bought and sold by the billions. Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the "coloured" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta's family struggles with her legacy
ER  -