Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Name: Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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ISBN: 9781400052172

ISBN-10: 1400052173

ISBN-13: 9781400052172

Edition: 2009

Authors: Rebecca Skloot

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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/2/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



A Few Words About This Book


Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph


Deborah's Voice



Life



The Exam...1951



Clover...1920- 1942



Diagnosis and Treatment...1951



The Birth of HeLa...1951



"Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside"...1951



"Lady's on the Phone"...1999



The Death and Life of Cell Culture...1951



"A Miserable Specimen"...1951



Turner Station...1999



The Other Side of the Tracks...1999



"The Devil of Pain Itself"...1951



Death



The Storm...1951



The HeLa Factory...1951-1953



Helen Lane...1953-1954



"Too Young to Remember"...1951-1965



"Spending Eternity in the Same Place"...1999



Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable...1954-1966



"Strangest Hybrid"...1960-1966



"The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now"...1966-1973



The HeLa Bomb...1966



Night Doctors...2000



"The Fame She So Richly Deserves"...1970-1973



Immortality



"It's Alive"...1973-1974



"Least They Can Do"...1975



"Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?"...1976-1988



Breach of Privacy...1980-1985



The Secret of Immortality...1984-1995



After London...1996-1999



A Village of Henriettas...2000



Zakariyya...2000



Hela, Goddess of Death...2000-2002



"All That's My Mother"...2001



The Hospital for the Negro Insane...2001



The Medical Records...2001



Soul Cleansing...2001



Heavenly Bodies...2001



"Nothing to Be Scared About"...2001



The Long Road to Clover...2009


Where They Are Now


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index