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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot

Publication Date: Mar 08, 2011
List Price: $18.99
Format: Paperback, 381 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781400052189
Imprint: Knopf
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Description of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells, taken without her knowledge in 1951, became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.


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