The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks /
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot. - 377 pages illustrations (some color) 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-358) and index.
Acclaimed author Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks--a woman whose cells have been unwittingly used for scientific research since the 1950s--with the birth of bioethics, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans.
9781400052172
2009031785
Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 --Health
Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography
African American women--History
Human experimentation in medicine--History--United States
HeLa cells.
Cancer--Research
Cell culture.
Medical ethics.
RC265.6.L24 / S55 2010
616/.02774092 B 616/.02774092 B
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot. - 377 pages illustrations (some color) 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-358) and index.
Acclaimed author Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks--a woman whose cells have been unwittingly used for scientific research since the 1950s--with the birth of bioethics, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans.
9781400052172
2009031785
Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 --Health
Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography
African American women--History
Human experimentation in medicine--History--United States
HeLa cells.
Cancer--Research
Cell culture.
Medical ethics.
RC265.6.L24 / S55 2010
616/.02774092 B 616/.02774092 B