Cells, genes, and stories: HeLa's journey from labs to literature

Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 247-265

  Wald, Priscilla ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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