TY  - GEN
AU  - Skloot,Rebecca
TI  - The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
SN  - 9781400052172 :
AV  - RC265.6.L24 S55 2010
U1  - 616/.02774092B 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown Publishers
KW  - Lacks, Henrietta,
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Biography
KW  - sears
KW  - African American women
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Research
KW  - Cells
KW  - Medical ethics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-358) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -