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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot, Rebecca
Adult Nonfiction 616.02774 S 2010
Skloot, Rebecca
Adult Nonfiction 616.02774 S 2010
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| Contents | Page |
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| A Few Words About This Book | p. ix |
| Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph | p. 1 |
| Deborah's Voice | p. 9 |
| Part 1 - Life | |
| 1 - The Exam...1951 | p. 13 |
| 2 - Clover...1920- 1942 | p. 18 |
| 3 - Diagnosis and Treatment...1951 | p. 27 |
| 4 - The Birth of HeLa...1951 | p. 34 |
| 5 - "Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside"...1951 | p. 42 |
| 6 - "Lady's on the Phone"...1999 | p. 49 |
| 7 - The Death and Life of Cell Culture...1951 | p. 56 |
| 8 - "A Miserable Specimen"...1951 | p. 63 |
| 9 - Turner Station...1999 | p. 67 |
| 10 - The Other Side of the Tracks...1999 | p. 77 |
| 11 - "The Devil of Pain Itself"...1951 | p. 83 |
| Part 2 - Death | |
| 12 - The Storm...1951 | p. 89 |
| 13 - The HeLa Factory...1951-1953 | p. 93 |
| 14 - Helen Lane...1953-1954 | p. 105 |
| 15 - "Too Young to Remember"...1951-1965 | p. 110 |
| 16 - "Spending Eternity in the Same Place"...1999 | p. 118 |
| 17 - Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable...1954-1966 | p. 127 |
| 18 - "Strangest Hybrid"...1960-1966 | p. 137 |
| 19 - "The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now"...1966-1973 | p. 144 |
| 20 - The HeLa Bomb...1966 | p. 152 |
| 21 - Night Doctors...2000 | p. 158 |
| 22 - "The Fame She So Richly Deserves"...1970-1973 | p. 170 |
| Part 3 - Immortality | |
| 23 - "It's Alive"...1973-1974 | p. 179 |
| 24 - "Least They Can Do"...1975 | p. 191 |
| 25 - "Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?"...1976-1988 | p. 199 |
| 26 - Breach of Privacy...1980-1985 | p. 207 |
| 27 - The Secret of Immortality...1984-1995 | p. 212 |
| 28 - After London...1996-1999 | p. 218 |
| 29 - A Village of Henriettas...2000 | p. 232 |
| 30 - Zakariyya...2000 | p. 241 |
| 31 - Hela, Goddess of Death...2000-2002 | p. 250 |
| 32 - "All That's My Mother"...2001 | p. 259 |
| 33 - The Hospital for the Negro Insane...2001 | p. 268 |
| 34 - The Medical Records...2001 | p. 279 |
| 35 - Soul Cleansing...2001 | p. 286 |
| 36 - Heavenly Bodies...2001 | p. 294 |
| 37 - "Nothing to Be Scared About"...2001 | p. 297 |
| 38 - The Long Road to Clover...2009 | p. 305 |
| Where They Are Now | p. 311 |
| Afterword | p. 315 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 329 |
| Notes | p. 338 |
| Index | p. 359 |
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