The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
By: Rebecca Skloot
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Large Print Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9781594134326
Subjects: Cancer; Cell culture; Research; Patients; Health; HeLa cells; African American women; Medical ethics; Human experimentation in medicine; Biography; History
Description: Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Crown Publishers, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 574-615).