Large print book
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Edition
Large print ed.
Publication Information
Waterville, Me. : Gale Cengage Learning, 2011, c2010.
Physical Description
618 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Subjects
- Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography.
- Cervix uteri > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography.
- African American women > Biography.
- African American women > Virginia > Biography.
- Human experimentation in medicine > United States > History.
- HeLa cells.
- Cancer > Research.
- Cell culture.
- Human cell culture.
- Medical ethics.
- Large type books.
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951.
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 > Health.
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 > Family.