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A Few Words About This Book | |
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Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph | |
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Deborah's Voice | |
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Life | |
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The Exam … 1951 | |
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Clover … 1920-1942 | |
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Diagnosis and Treatment … 1951 | |
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The Birth of HeLa … 1951 | |
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�Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside� … 1951 | |
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�Lady's on the Phone� … 1999 | |
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The Death and Life of Cell Culture … 1951 | |
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�A Miserable Specimen� … 1951 | |
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Turner Station … 1999 | |
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The Other Side of the Tracks … 1999 | |
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�The Devil of Pain Itself� … 1951 | |
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Death | |
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The Storm … 1951 | |
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The HeLa Factory … 1951-1953 | |
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Helen Lane … 1953-1954 | |
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�Too Young to Remember� … 1951-1965 | |
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�Spending Eternity in the Same Place� … 1999 | |
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Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable … 1954-1966 | |
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�Strangest Hybrid� … 1960-1966 | |
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�The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now� … 1966-1973 | |
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The HeLa Bomb … 1966 | |
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Night Doctors … 2000 | |
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�The Fame She So Richly Deserves� … 1970-1973 | |
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Immortality | |
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�It's Alive� … 1973-1974 | |
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�Least They Can Do� … 1975 | |
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�Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?� … 1976-1988 | |
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Breach of Privacy … 1980-1985 | |
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The Secret of Immortality … 1984-1995 | |
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After London … 1996-1999 | |
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A Village of Henriettas … 2000 | |
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Zakariyya … 2000 | |
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Hela, Goddess of Death … 2000-2001 | |
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�All That's My Mother� … 2001 | |
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The Hospital for the Negro Insane … 2001 | |
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The Medical Records … 2001 | |
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Soul Cleansing … 2001 | |
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Heavenly Bodies … 2001 | |
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�Nothing to Be Scared About� … 2001 | |
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The Long Road to Clover … 2009 | |
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Where They Are Now | |
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About the Henrietta Lacks Foundation | |
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Afterword | |
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Cast of Characters | |
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Timeline | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |
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Reading Group Guide | |