"African American women." . . "Tissue and Organ Procurement ethics United States." . . "Human experimentation in medicine United States History." . . "African American women History." . . "Cancer Patients Virginia Biography." . . "Hela Cells United States." . . "Tissue Donors United States Biography." . . "Virginia." . . "Cell culture." . . "History, 20th Century United States." . . "Confidentiality ethics United States." . . "Cancer Patients." . . "Prejudice United States." . . "Human experimentation in medicine." . . "Medical ethics." . . "OverDrive, Inc." . . "Human Experimentation ethics United States." . . "Cancer Research." . . . . . . . . "Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, 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. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons--as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Audiobooks"@en . "Electronic audio books"@en . . . "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" . "The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks"@en . . . "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."@en . . . . . . "Sound recordings"@en . . . "Compact discs"@en . . . . . . "Downloadable audio books"@en . . . . . . "eAudio in progress"@en . . . . . . "This is the riveting true story of how the cancerous cells of a poor African American woman formed the building blocks for many modern medical breakthroughs--all while her family struggled with poverty."@en . . . . "Biography"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "History"@en . . . . . "African Americans United States Biography." . . "HeLa cells." . . . . "United States." . . "Health." . .