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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot ; with an introduction by Sarah Moss.

By: Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Picador classicPublisher: London : Picador, 2019Description: xxii, 431 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509877027 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health | Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia | African American women -- Virginia | Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century | HeLa cells | Medical ethics -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Health and Fitness | Health and WellbeingDDC classification: 616'.02774'092 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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Originally published: New York: Crown, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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