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  • Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
     
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  • Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health.
     
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  • Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Biography.
     
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  • African American women -- History.
     
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  • Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
     
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  • HeLa cells.
     
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  • Cancer -- Research.
     
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  • Cell culture.
     
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  • Medical ethics.
     
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    The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
    by Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
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    New York : Crown Publishers, ©2010. ©2010.
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  • Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health.
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  • Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Biography.
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  • African American women -- History.
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  • Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
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  • HeLa cells.
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  • Cancer -- Research.
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  • Cell culture.
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  • Medical ethics.
  • ISBN: 
    9781400052172
    1400052173
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    Description: 
    x, 369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
    Contents: 
    Life. The exam ... 1951 ; Clover ... 1920-1942 ; Diagnosis and treatment ... 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 ... 1951 ; "A miserable specimen ... 1951 ; Turner Station ... 1999 ; The other side of the tracks ... 1999 ; "The devil of pain itself" ... 1951 -- 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 -- 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 -- Where they are now.
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