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Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Large type / large print edition [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 618 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 213x140x33 mm, kaal: 703 g, Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Mar-2011
  • Kirjastus: Large Print Press
  • ISBN-10: 1594134324
  • ISBN-13: 9781594134326
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 618 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 213x140x33 mm, kaal: 703 g, Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 08-Mar-2011
  • Kirjastus: Large Print Press
  • ISBN-10: 1594134324
  • ISBN-13: 9781594134326
Teised raamatud teemal:
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping. (science).
A Few Words About This Book 11(6)
Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph 17(12)
Deborah's Voice 29(2)
PART ONE LIFE
31(124)
1 The Exam . . . 1951
33(8)
2 Clover . . . 1920--1942
41(16)
3 Diagnosis and Treatment . . . 1951
57(12)
4 The Birth of HeLa . . . 1951
69(13)
5 "Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside" . . . 1951
82(12)
6 "Lady's on the Phone" . . . 1999
94(11)
7 The Death and Life of Cell Culture . . . 1951
105(11)
8 "A Miserable Specimen" . . . 1951
116(7)
9 Turner Station . . . 1999
123(16)
10 The Other Side of the Tracks . . . 1999
139(10)
11 "The Devil of Pain Itself" . . . 1951
149(6)
PART TWO DEATH
155(146)
12 The Storm . . . 1951
157(7)
13 The HeLa Factory . . . 1951--1953
164(21)
14 Helen Lane . . . 1953--1954
185(7)
15 "Too Young to Remember" . . . 1951--1965
192(13)
16 "Spending Eternity in the Same Place" . . . 1999
205(15)
17 Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable . . . 1954--1966
220(16)
18 "Strangest Hybrid" . . . 1960--1966
236(11)
19 "The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now" . . . 1966--1973
247(13)
20 The HeLa Bomb . . . 1966
260(9)
21 Night Doctors . . . 2000
269(20)
22 "The Fame She So Richly Deserves" . . . 1970--1973
289(12)
PART THREE IMMORTALITY
301(220)
23 "It's Alive" . . . 1973--1974
303(19)
24 "Least They Can Do" . . . 1975
322(13)
25 "Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?" . . . 1976--1988
335(13)
26 Breach of Privacy . . . 1980--1985
348(9)
27 The Secret of Immortality . . . 1984--1995
357(10)
28 After London . . . 1996--1999
367(24)
29 A Village of Henriettas . . . 2000
391(14)
30 Zakariyya . . . 2000
405(15)
31 Hela, Goddess of Death . . . 2000--2001
420(15)
32 "All That's My Mother" . . . 2001
435(15)
33 The Hospital for the Negro Insane . . . 2001
450(19)
34 The Medical Records . . . 2001
469(11)
35 Soul Cleansing . . . 2001
480(14)
36 Heavenly Bodies . . . 2001
494(5)
37 "Nothing to Be Scared About" . . . 2001
499(13)
38 The Long Road to Clover . . . 2009
512(9)
Where They Are Now 521(6)
Afterword 527(26)
Acknowledgments 553(18)
Notes 571