Author: Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
Title: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Published: New York: Broadway Paperbacks, 2011
Description: xiv, 381 p., plates :ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Call Number: RC265.6 L24 S55 2011
Note(s): "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form ... by Crown Publishers ... in 2010"--T.p. verso. "Reading group guide"--P. [379]-381
Subject(s):
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951--Health
- Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography
- African American women--History
- Human experimentation in medicine--United States--History
- HeLa cells
- Cancer--Research
- Cell culture
- Medical ethics
Review(s):
- Sands, Jon M. "THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS." Jurimetrics: The Journal Of Law, Science & Technology 51, no. 2 (Winter 2011): 131-139
- Littlefield, Melissa M., and Anne Pollock. "Review essay: Troubling with ‘the ethics of the thing’ in Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." Social Studies Of Science (Sage Publications, Ltd.) 41, no. 4 (August 2011): 609-618
- Scannell, Kate. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." Journal Of Legal Medicine 31, no. 4 (October 2010): 493-498
Read: November 18, 2011
