The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by
Call Number: RC265.6.L24 S55 2011Also available as an audio book
Who Was Henrietta Lacks?
She was a black tobacco farmer from southern Virginia who became ill with cervical cancer when she was 30. A doctor at Johns Hopkins took a piece of her tumor without her knowledge and sent it down the hall to scientists who had tried to grow tissues in a culture for decades without success. No one knows why, but her cells never died.
Articles & Websites related to The Immortal Life
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Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, September 2009Henrietta Lacks, HeLa Cells, and Cell Culture Contamination
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Popular Science, February 2010"5 Reasons Henrietta Lacks Is The Most Important Woman in Medical History"
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Smithsonian Magazine Online 1/22/2010"Journalist Rebecca Skloot’s new book investigates how a poor black tobacco farmer had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine."
About the Author
Rebecca Skloot is a science writer whose first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, took more than 10 years to research and write. She has a B.S. in Biological Sciences and a MFA in Creative Nonfiction.
Credits
This library guide is recreated with the permission of Nastasha Johnson at Bluford Library at North Carolina A & T State University. Used by Permission.
Customized for the Delaware County Community College reading program by Erica Swenson Danowitz, Reference Librarian.