A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy-And the Medical Scandal It Caused by Michael Gold

A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy-And the Medical Scandal It Caused

Michael Gold

170 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction science emotional informative medium-paced

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A Conspiracy of Cells presents the first full account of one of medical science's more bizarre and costly mistakes. On October 4, 1951, a young black woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer. That is, most of Henrietta Lacks died. In a ...

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