Title Page
Dedication
A Few Words About this Book
Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph
Deborah’s Voice
Part One - Life
Chapter 1 - The Exam … 1951
Chapter 2 - Clover … 1920–1942
Chapter 3 - Diagnosis and Treatment … 1951
Chapter 4 - The Birth of HeLa … 1951
Chapter 5 - “Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside” … 1951
Chapter 6 - “Lady’s on the Phone” … 1999
Chapter 7 - The Death and Life of Cell Culture … 1951
Chapter 8 - “A Miserable Specimen” … 1951
Chapter 9 - Turner Station … 1999
Chapter 10 - The Other Side of the Tracks … 1999
Chapter 11 - “The Devil of Pain Itself” … 1951
Part Two - Death
Chapter 12 - The Storm … 1951
Chapter 13 - The HeLa Factory … 1951–1953
Chapter 14 - Helen Lane … 1953–1954
Chapter 15 - “Too Young to Remember” … 1951–1965
Chapter 16 - “Spending Eternity in the Same Place” … 1999
Chapter 17 - Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable … 1954–1966
Chapter 18 - “Strangest Hybrid” … 1960–1966
Chapter 19 - “The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is Now” … 1966–
1973
Chapter 20 - The HeLa Bomb … 1966
Chapter 21 - Night Doctors … 2000
Chapter 22 - “The Fame She So Richly Deserves” … 1970–1973
Part Three - Immortality
Chapter 23 - “It’s Alive” … 1973–1974
Chapter 24 - “Least They Can Do” … 1975
Chapter 25 - “Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?” … 1976–1988
Chapter 26 - Breach of Privacy … 1980–1985
Chapter 27 - The Secret of Immortality … 1984–1995
Chapter 28 - After London … 1996–1999
Chapter 29 - A Village of Henriettas … 2000
Chapter 30 - Zakariyya … 2000
Chapter 31 - Hela, Goddess of Death … 2000–2001
Chapter 32 - “All That’s My Mother” … 2001
Chapter 33 - The Hospital for the Negro Insane … 2001
Chapter 34 - The Medical Records … 2001
Chapter 35 - Soul Cleansing … 2001
Chapter 36 - Heavenly Bodies … 2001
Chapter 37 - “Nothing to Be Scared About” … 2001
Chapter 38 - The Long Road to Clover … 2009
Where They are Now
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
