The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 26.00 US -

Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats

Pub Date: February 02, 2010

Annotation: 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.