ISBN: 1400052173 EAN: 9781400052172
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.