The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Copyright © 2010 by Rebecca Skloot
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Portions of this work appeared, sometimes in different form, in “Taking the Least of You,” The New York Times Magazine, copyright © 2006 by Rebecca Skloot; “Henrietta’s Dance,” Johns Hopkins Magazine, copyright © 2000 by Rebecca Skloot; “Enough with Patenting the Breast Cancer Gene,” Slate’s Double X, copyright © 2009 by Rebecca Skloot.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972–
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
p. cm.
1. Lacks, Henrietta, 1920–1951—Health. 2. Cancer—Patients—Virginia—Biography. 3. HeLa cells. 4. Cancer—Research. 5. Cell culture. 6. Medical ethics. I. Title.
RC265.6.L24S55 2009
616′.02774092—dc22
[B] 2009031785
eISBN: 978-0-307-58938-5
Photographs on the title page, and section pages for part one, two and three
copyright © 2010 Omar A. Quintero.
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