CONTENTS

A Few words about this book, IX

Prologue: The woman in the photograph, I

Deborah's Voice, 9

PART ONE
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
10. The other side of the tracks . . . 1999, 77
11. "The devil of pain itself" . . . 1951, 83

PART TWO
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 THREE
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 - 2001, 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

Afeterword, 315

Acknowledgments, 329

Notes, 338

Index, 359