The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.

Birthing a slave : motherhood and medicine in the antebellum South / Marie Jenkins Schwartz.

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.

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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.

Birthing a slave : motherhood and medicine in the antebellum South / Marie Jenkins Schwartz.

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.