The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.

By:

Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- [Author]

Material type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Audience:

General
Any audience

ISBN:

9781400052172

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DDC classification:

616/.02774092 B 22
616/.02774092 B

LOC classification:

RC265.6.L24 S55 2010

Summary: 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.

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Books	Idaho Springs Public Library	ANF	616.02 SKL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	30404100311396
Books	John Tomay Memorial Library	ANF	616.02 SKL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	31030100018886

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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.

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