Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have …
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance.
This New York Times bestseller takes readers on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers filled with HeLa cells, from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. It’s a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we’re made of. (source)
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
paperback, 384 pages
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Published Jan. 1, 2011 by Pan Publishing, PAN.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Kindle Edition, 393 pages
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Published June 2, 2010 by Picador.
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The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Hardcover, 369 pages
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Published Nov. 8, 2010 by Crown Publishers.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Published Feb. 8, 2011 by Crown Pub.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Paperback, 400 pages
Published April 4, 2017 by Broadway Books, BROADWAY.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Published Feb. 2, 2010 by Random House Audio.
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The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks
library binding, 400 pages
Published March 8, 2011 by Turtleback, Turtleback Books.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Published Nov. 8, 2010 by Crown Publishing Group.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
381 pages
English language
Published Sept. 13, 2011
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
hardcover, 352 pages
Published June 7, 2010 by Crown.
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The immortal life of Henriette Lacks
619 pages
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Published Nov. 8, 2010 by Thorndike Press.
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- 978-1-4104-2792-2Copied ISBN!
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- 606053227
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
paperback, 379 pages
Published Nov. 8, 2010 by Pan Books.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Published by PAN MACMILLAN U.K.
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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
618 pages
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Published Nov. 8, 2011 by Large Print Press/Gale Cengage Learning.
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