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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot

By:

Skloot, Rebecca, (, 1972-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Crown Publishers , c2010.Description: x, 369 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:

9781400052172

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 LAC

LOC classification:

RC265.6.L24 S55 2010

Summary: 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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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 LAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016302

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-358) and index.

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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