The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Lacks, Gladys Lacks, Ruby Lacks, Thurl Lacks, Polly Martin, Sadie Sturdivant, John and Dolly Terry, and Peter Wooden. Special th ...

questions. Leonard Hayflick spent more than a dozen hours on the phone with me, often tak- ing my calls when he was traveling or ...

HeLa photos and video footage for the book and its website), Laura Stark, and Keith Woods. Thanks also to the many people who re ...

Mone, Michael Moyer, Scott Mowbray, Katie Orenstein, Adam Penenberg, Michael Pollan, Corey Powell, Mark Rotella, Lizzie Skurnick ...

at Random House, who believed in this book and worked hard to help get it into classrooms. Thanks also to the Random House sales ...

I’m very lucky to count Mike Rosenwald (mikerosenwald.com) as one of my closest friends. He’s an inspiration as a writer, report ...

Notes T he source materials I relied on to write this book filled multiple file cabinets, and the hun- dreds of hours of intervi ...

To re-create the lives and work of George and Margaret Gey, I relied on the holdings of the George Gey archives at the Alan Maso ...

PART ONE: LIFE ...

Chapter 1: The Exam Conflicting dates have been reported for Henrietta’s first visit to Johns Hopkins; the date most commonly ci ...

Chapter 2: Clover Information on the history of Virginia tobacco production came from the Virginia Historical So- ciety, the Hal ...

Chapter 3: Diagnosis and Treatment For information on the development of the Pap smear, see G. N. Papanicolaou and H. F. Traut, ...

For information about Gey’s pre-HeLa cell culture work, see G. O. Gey, “Studies on the Cultivation of Human Tissue Outside the B ...

Chapter 4: The Birth of HeLa For information on Gey’s development of the roller drum, see “An Improved Technic for Massive Tissu ...

Chapter 5: “Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside” TeLinde’s discussion of the “psychic effects of hysterectomy” can be found in “Hys ...

Chapter 6: “Lady’s on the Phone” Papers from the first HeLa symposium were published in “The HeLa Cancer Control Symposi- um: Pr ...

Chapter 7: The Death and Life of Cell Culture For the television segment featuring George Gey, see “Cancer Will Be Conquered,” J ...

The newspaper article that documented Henrietta’s address was Jacques Kelly, “Her Cells Made Her Immortal,” Baltimore Sun, March ...

PART TWO: DEATH Chapter 12: The Storm For a discussion of the history of court decisions and rights regarding autopsies, see Sub ...

Chapter 13: The HeLa Factory For further reading on the history of the polio vaccine, see The Virus and the Vaccine, by Debbie B ...