Book Detail

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

ISBN: 9781400052172

Contributors: Skloot, Rebecca (Author)

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2010

Binding: Hardcover (Readerbound Available)

Retail: $30.00

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1 copy: $23.40
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Description

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.

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