The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

369 pages • 2010

89 editions

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced
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In 1951, a young woman from Baltimore died of cancer. Her death changed medical science for ever. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells - taken without her knowledg...

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