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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks /

by Skloot, Rebecca, Edition statement:Large print edition. Published by : Thorndike Press, (Waterville, Maine :) Physical details: 619 pages ; 23 cm ISBN:9781410427922; 1410427927.
Subject(s): 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. | Large type books. | MEDICAL / History. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
Year: 2010 Item type: Large Print
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 571-615).

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.

Ambassador Book Award for American Studies, 2011

Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, 2011

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