Die Unsterblichkeit der Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, Sebastian Vogel

Die Unsterblichkeit der Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot, Sebastian Vogel

512 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative sad medium-paced

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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 slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. Th...

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