TY - BOOK AU - Skloot, Rebecca TI - The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks SN - 9780330533447 (pbk.) : U1 - Senior S PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Pan KW - Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 - Health KW - Cancer - Patients - Virginia - Biography KW - African American women - Virginia - Biography KW - Human experimentation in medicine - United States - History - 20th century KW - HeLa cells KW - Medical ethics - United States - History - 20th century KW - BIOGRAPHY N1 - Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index; Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells became one of the most important tools in medicine. Rebecca Skloot takes the reader on an extraordinary journey in search of Henrietta's story ER -