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    'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings to mind the work of Philip K. Dick and Edgar Allan Poe. But this tale is true. Rebecca Skloot explores the racism and greed, the idealism and faith in science that helped to save thousands of lives but nearly destroyed a family. This is an extraordinary book, haunting and beautifully told'
    'One of the most graceful and moving non-fiction books I've read in a very long time. A thorny and provocative book about cancer, racism, scientific ethics and crippling poverty, The Immortal'. Life of Henrietta Lacks floods over you like a narrative dam break, as if someone had managed to distill and purify the more addictive qualities of Erin Brockovich, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The Andromeda Strain... It has brains and pacing and nerve  and heart, and it is uncommonly endearing'

内容提要

  

A Few Words About This Book
Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph
Deborah's Voice
                        
Part One LIFE
1. The Exam... 1951
2. Clover... 1920-1942
3. Diagnosis and Treatment... 1951
4. The Birth of HeLa... 1951
5. "Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside"... 1951
6. "Lady's on the Phone"... 1999
7. The Death and Life of Cell Culture... 1951
8. "A Miserable Specimen"... 1951
9. Turner Station... 1999
10. The Other Side of the Tracks... 1999
11. "The Devil of Pain Itself" ... 1951
                        
Part Two DEATH
12. The Storm... 1951
13. The HeLa Factory... 1951-1953
14. Helen Lane... 1953-1954
15. "Too Young to Remember"... 1951-1965
16. "Spending Eternity in the Same Place"... 1999
17. Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable... 1954-1966
18. "Strangest Hybrid"... 196O-1966
19. "The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now"...1966-1973
20. The HeLa Bomb... 1966
21. Night Doctors... 2000
22. "The Fame She So Richly Deserves"... 1970-1973
                        
Part Three IMMORTALITY
23. "It's Alive"... 1973-1974
24. "Least They Can Do"... 1975
25. "Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?"... 1976-1988
26. Breach of Privacy... 1980-1985
27. The Secret of Immortality... 1984-1995
28. After London... 1996-1999
29. A Village of Henriettas... 2000
30. Zakariyya... 2000
31. Hela, Goddess of Death... 2000-2001
32. "All That's My Mother"... 2001
33. The Hospital for the Negro Insane... 2001
34. The Medical Records... 2001
35. Soul Cleansing... 2001
36. Heavenly Bodies... 2001
37. "Nothing to Be Scared About"... 2001
38. The Long Road to Clover... 2009
Where They Are Now
Afterword