Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot Rebecca)(Paperback / softback)

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta’s family did not learn of her ‘immortality’ until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences... Rebecca Skloot’s fascinating account is the story of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world for ever. Balancing the beauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who owns the st The Immortal Life of Henrietta - Rebecca Skloot od authora Rebecca Skloot a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz
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