Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (eBook, ePUB)
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Hersteller: | Crown/Archetype (Skloot, Rebecca) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poorblack tobacco farmer whose cellstaken without her knowledge in 1951became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more.Henrietta´s cellshave been bought and sold by the billions, yetshe remains virtually unknown, and her family can´t afford health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.
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