A Few Words About This Book | | | | | | ix |
Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph | | | | | | 1 |
Deborah's Voice | | | | | | 9 |
Part 1
Life | | | | | | |
1
The Exam...1951 | | | | | | 13 |
2
Clover...1920- 1942 | | | | | | 18 |
3
Diagnosis and Treatment...1951 | | | | | | 27 |
4
The Birth of HeLa...1951 | | | | | | 34 |
5
"Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside"...1951 | | | | | | 42 |
6
"Lady's on the Phone"...1999 | | | | | | 49 |
7
The Death and Life of Cell Culture...1951 | | | | | | 56 |
8
"A Miserable Specimen"...1951 | | | | | | 63 |
9
Turner Station...1999 | | | | | | 67 |
10
The Other Side of the Tracks...1999 | | | | | | 77 |
11
"The Devil of Pain Itself"...1951 | | | | | | 83 |
Part 2
Death | | | | | | |
12
The Storm...1951 | | | | | | 89 |
13
The HeLa Factory...1951-1953 | | | | | | 93 |
14
Helen Lane...1953-1954 | | | | | | 105 |
15
"Too Young to Remember"...1951-1965 | | | | | | 110 |
16
"Spending Eternity in the Same Place"...1999 | | | | | | 118 |
17
Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable...1954-1966 | | | | | | 127 |
18
"Strangest Hybrid"...1960-1966 | | | | | | 137 |
19
"The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now"...1966-1973 | | | | | | 144 |
20
The HeLa Bomb...1966 | | | | | | 152 |
21
Night Doctors...2000 | | | | | | 158 |
22
"The Fame She So Richly Deserves"...1970-1973 | | | | | | 170 |
Part 3
Immortality | | | | | | |
23
"It's Alive"...1973-1974 | | | | | | 179 |
24
"Least They Can Do"...1975 | | | | | | 191 |
25
"Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?"...1976-1988 | | | | | | 199 |
26
Breach of Privacy...1980-1985 | | | | | | 207 |
27
The Secret of Immortality...1984-1995 | | | | | | 212 |
28
After London...1996-1999 | | | | | | 218 |
29
A Village of Henriettas...2000 | | | | | | 232 |
30
Zakariyya...2000 | | | | | | 241 |
31
Hela, Goddess of Death...2000-2002 | | | | | | 250 |
32
"All That's My Mother"...2001 | | | | | | 259 |
33
The Hospital for the Negro Insane...2001 | | | | | | 268 |
34
The Medical Records...2001 | | | | | | 279 |
35
Soul Cleansing...2001 | | | | | | 286 |
36
Heavenly Bodies...2001 | | | | | | 294 |
37
"Nothing to Be Scared About"...2001 | | | | | | 297 |
38
The Long Road to Clover...2009 | | | | | | 305 |
Where They Are Now | | | | | | 311 |
Afterword | | | | | | 315 |
Acknowledgments | | | | | | 329 |
Notes | | | | | | 338 |
Index | | | | | | 359 |