@article{336476,
      recid = {336476},
      author = {Skloot, Rebecca,},
      title = {The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks /},
      publisher = {Crown Publishers,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {x, 369 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as  HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her  cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most  important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human  cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though  she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells  were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered  secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro  fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been  bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is  buried in an unmarked grave. Her family did not learn of  her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her  death, when scientists began using her husband and children  in research without informed consent. The story of the  Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history  of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of  bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control  the stuff we are made of--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/336476},
}