A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy-And the Medical Scandal It Caused by Gold, Michael

A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy-And the Medical Scandal It Caused

A Conspiracy of Cells presents the first full account of one of medical science's more bizarre and...
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Author: Michael Gold
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A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy-And the Medical Scandal It Caused by Gold, Michael

A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy-And the Medical Scandal It Caused

$322.78

A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy-And the Medical Scandal It Caused

$322.78
Author: Michael Gold
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A Conspiracy of Cells presents the first full account of one of medical science's more bizarre and costly mistakes. On October 4, 1951, a young black woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer. That is, most of Henrietta Lacks died. In a laboratory dish at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, a few cells taken from her fatal tumor continued to live--to thrive, in fact. For reasons unknown, her cells, code-named "HeLa," grew more vigorously than any other cells in culture at the time.

Long-time science reporter Michael Gold describes in graphic detail how the errant HeLa cells spread, contaminating and overwhelming other cell cultures, sabotaging research projects, and eluding detection until they had managed to infiltrate scientific laboratories worldwide. He tracks the efforts of geneticist Walter Nelson-Rees to alert a sceptical scientific community to the rampant HeLa contamination. And he reconstructs Nelson-Rees's crusade to expose the embarrassing mistakes and bogus conclusions of researchers who unknowingly abetted HeLa's spread.

Author: Michael Gold
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 10/01/1985
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780887060991

About the Author

Michael Gold has been a writer and editor at the award-winning magazine Science 85.




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