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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- ISBN 13:
9781400052172
- ISBN 10:
1400052173
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 02/02/2010
- Publisher: Crown
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Summary
Doctors retrieved cells from Henrietta Lacks, the descendants of freed slaves, and used them to create the first immortal human cell line grown in culture-with important consequences for cancer research, in vitro developments, gene mapping, and more. But they never told her or her family.
A real detective story from science writer Skloot.
Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks--a woman whose cells have been unwittingly used for scientific research since the 1950s--with the birth of bioethics, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans.
