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447 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780307888440
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Crown
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her enslaved ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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447 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780307888440
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Crown
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her enslaved ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine....