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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Title
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
ISBN
9780307589385
0307589382
9781400052189
1400052181
Publication
New York : Broadway Paperbacks, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., [2011]
Copyright Notice Date
©2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Notes
Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, 2010; Wellcome Trust Book Prize, 2010.
Description based on print version record.
Other formats
Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 28, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-366) and index.
Contents
A few words about this book
Prologue: the woman in the photograph
Deborah's voice
Part One: 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
Part Two: 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
Part Three: 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
About the Henrietta Lacks Foundation
Afterword
Cast of characters
Timeline
Reading group guide.
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