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

Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

369 pages 2010

90 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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