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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Macmillan, 2010.Description: xii, 368 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780230748699 (hbk.) :
  • 9780230748699 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.02774092
LOC classification:
  • RC265.6
Contents:
PART 1: Life:- 1. The Exam...1951--2. Clover...1920-1942--3. Diagnosis and Treatment...1951--4. The Birth of HeLa...1951--5, Blackness be spreadin all inside ... 1951--6. Lady\'s on the phone ... 1999 --7. The death and life of Cell Culture ... 1951 --8. A Miserable Specimen ... 1951 --9. Turner station...1999--10. The other side of the tracks...1999--11. The Devil of Pain itself ...1951 --PART 2: Death:- 12. The Storm...1951 ...13. The HeLa Factory ...1951-1953 --14. Helen Lane ...1953-1954 --15. Too Young to Remember ...1951 -1965 --16. Spending Eternity in the same Place ...1999 --17. Illegal, Immorall, and Deplorable...1954-1966--18. Strangest Hybrid ...1960-1966--19. The Most Critical time on this earth is now ...1966-1973 --20. The HeLa Bomb...1966--21. Night Doctors ... 2000--22. The Fame She so Richly Deserves ...1970-1973--Part III: Immortality:- 23. It\'s Alive ...1973-1974--24. Least they can do ...1975--25. Who told you you could sell my spleen?...1976-1988--26. Breach of privacy...1980-1985--27. The secret of Immortality...1984-1995--28. After London...1996-1999--29. A village of Henriettas...2000--30. Zakariyya ...2000--31. Hela, Goddess of Death ...2000-2001--32. All that\'s my mother ...2001--33. The hospital for the Negro Insane...2001--34. The Medical Records...2001--35. Soul cleansing. . . 2001--36. Heavenly Bodies . . . 2001--37. Nothing to be scared about . . . 2001--38. The long road to Clover . . . 2009--Where they are Now--Afterword.
Summary: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells became one of the most important tools in medicine. Rebecca Skloot takes the reader on an extraordinary journey in search of Henrietta's story.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1: Life:- 1. The Exam...1951--2. Clover...1920-1942--3. Diagnosis and Treatment...1951--4. The Birth of HeLa...1951--5, Blackness be spreadin all inside ... 1951--6. Lady\'s on the phone ... 1999 --7. The death and life of Cell Culture ... 1951 --8. A Miserable Specimen ... 1951 --9. Turner station...1999--10. The other side of the tracks...1999--11. The Devil of Pain itself ...1951 --PART 2: Death:- 12. The Storm...1951 ...13. The HeLa Factory ...1951-1953 --14. Helen Lane ...1953-1954 --15. Too Young to Remember ...1951 -1965 --16. Spending Eternity in the same Place ...1999 --17. Illegal, Immorall, and Deplorable...1954-1966--18. Strangest Hybrid ...1960-1966--19. The Most Critical time on this earth is now ...1966-1973 --20. The HeLa Bomb...1966--21. Night Doctors ... 2000--22. The Fame She so Richly Deserves ...1970-1973--Part III: Immortality:- 23. It\'s Alive ...1973-1974--24. Least they can do ...1975--25. Who told you you could sell my spleen?...1976-1988--26. Breach of privacy...1980-1985--27. The secret of Immortality...1984-1995--28. After London...1996-1999--29. A village of Henriettas...2000--30. Zakariyya ...2000--31. Hela, Goddess of Death ...2000-2001--32. All that\'s my mother ...2001--33. The hospital for the Negro Insane...2001--34. The Medical Records...2001--35. Soul cleansing. . . 2001--36. Heavenly Bodies . . . 2001--37. Nothing to be scared about . . . 2001--38. The long road to Clover . . . 2009--Where they are Now--Afterword.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells became one of the most important tools in medicine. Rebecca Skloot takes the reader on an extraordinary journey in search of Henrietta's story.

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