The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The book that shook the world in 2010. Bestseller who broke all imaginable sales records.
Who has the right to our body, or its part, or biomaterial, taken for tests: Do we, doctors, scientists? .. For the first time, it was possible to cultivate the "immortal" cells of the human body in the 1950s. It literally turned the whole medical science. HELA cells helped to develop vaccines from polio, disclose the secrets of cancer, viruses and the influence of the nuclear explosion, they helped to make important steps in the study of artificial fertilization, cloning and mapping.
And inevitably became the subject of "purchase and sale": some riskers, others, and did not suspect that they are experiments on them.
This book is a dramatic story about the fate of a simple woman who gave the world to the world of immortal cells, about honest and dishonest doctors, about the court battles, bioethics. A beautiful and dramatic scientific study, from which it is impossible to break away