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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks UMD RC 265.6 .L24 S55 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951--Health.
- Lacks, Henrietta.
- Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography.
- Cancer.
- African American women--History.
- African American women.
- Human experimentation in medicine--United States--History.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Racism in medicine--United States--History.
- Racism in medicine.
- HeLa cells.
- Cancer--Research.
- Cell culture.
- Medical ethics.
- Organ donors.
- African Americans.
- Prejudices.
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951.
- Tissue Donors.
- Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics.
- Black or African American.
- Confidentiality--ethics.
- HeLa Cells.
- History, 20th Century.
- Human Experimentation--ethics.
- Prejudice.
- United States.
- Cells, Cultured.
- Ethics, Medical.
- african american.
- Cancer--Patients.
- Health.
- Virginia.
- Medical Subjects:
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951.
- Tissue Donors.
- Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics.
- Black or African American.
- Confidentiality--ethics.
- HeLa Cells.
- History, 20th Century.
- Human Experimentation--ethics.
- Prejudice.
- United States.
- Cells, Cultured.
- Ethics, Medical.
- Genre:
- Biographie.
- Student Collection.
- Young adult nonfiction.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Publishers, ©2010.
- Summary:
- Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. Her family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. The story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of--From publisher description
- Contents:
- 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 ... 2000-2001 ; "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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-358) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
- ISBN:
- 1400052173
- 9781400052172
- 1400052181
- 9781400052189
- 0804189870
- 9780804189873
- OCLC:
- 326529053
- Online:
- Staff Review
- Additional information at Google Books
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