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.
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks (2011, Large Print Press/Gale Cengage Learning)
618 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2011 by Large Print Press/Gale Cengage Learning.
Subjects
- Cancer
- Cell culture
- Research
- Patients
- Health
- HeLa cells
- African American women
- Medical ethics
- Human experimentation in medicine
- Biography
- History
Places
- United States
- Virginia
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