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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Hailed as “a writer of uncommon clarity” by the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls. Now she returns with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama set in the high-stakes atmosphere of a prestigious research institute in Cambridge,...
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
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x, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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English
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"Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolution -- a new way of looking at cancer and its causes. Featuring interviews with notable scientists such as Harald zur Hausen, Barry Marshall, Robin Warren, and others, the book tells the story of their struggles, their frustrations, and finally the breakthroughs that helped form some of the most profound changes in the way we view cancer. But pioneering scientists...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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xvii, 253 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch--wall mounts, postcards, keychains, coffee mugs, shot glasses, and so on. A vast body of folk narratives has carried the jackalope's fame around...
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Series
Capital crimes series volume 18
Publisher
Random House
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English
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Best-selling author Margaret Truman is beloved for her highly acclaimed Capital Crimes mystery series. In this adventure, former secret agent Max Pauling is offered a chance to do investigative work in Cuba. Although not anticipating danger, one of his sources is killed and he is assaulted. Max realizes that someone doesn't want him to uncover certain secrets of the isla bonita. Narrator Richard Poe brings out the suspense in this international thriller....
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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xviii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. After young sailors began suddenly dying with mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant...
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
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x, 255 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
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English
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A comprehensive history of the medical advances in the battle against cancer provides a tour of human biology to explain what happens to the body when the disease develops, and discusses the science behind current treatments.
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Cancer Resource Centre
Pub. Date
©2008
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176 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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A collection of recipes and inspirational stories of the care and comfort experienced by people who have been diagnosed with cancer. For cancer survivor Zita Ganza, kindness was packed in jars of homemade tomato juice, and in the home cooked meals delivered to her door. Her story and others provide a heartening look at the ways people reach out to each other, nourishing bodies, hearts, and souls.
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Series
Annie's Attic mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Annie's Attic
Pub. Date
[2012]
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223 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
When Annie Dawson and her friends from the Hook and Needle Club search for props for a play to be held in Stony Point's Cultural Center, they discover a secret hidden for more than 45 years in her old home's attic. The production of the play will benefit a fund for breast cancer research.
16) Medicine man
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Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Robert Campbell, a brilliant but unorthodox scientist, is racing against time in his bold research for a cure against cancer. Deep in the Amazon rain forest, Campbell is hot on the trail of an amazing discovery, but soon finds himself caught in the midst of an explosive adventure.
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Publisher
Viking
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English
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This new edition addresses current developments in cancer research and offers more tips on how people living with cancer can fight it and how healthy people can prevent it. The new edition includes: the latest research on anticancer foods, including new alternatives to sugar and cautions about some that are now on the market; new information about how vitamin D strengthens the immune system; warnings about common food contaminants that have recently...
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Series
Publisher
Emerald Prairie Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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335 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Ambitious Cassandra Sato traded her life in Hawai'i for a dream position at Morton College in rural Nebraska. She expected the Midwestern church casseroles, land-locked cornfields, and face-freezing winters would be her biggest challenges, but it's her job that's rapidly becoming a nightmare. A deaf student is dead and the investigation reveals a complicated trail of connections between campus food service, a local farmer's beef, and the science...
19) Beyond the ashes
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Series
Golden Gate chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Where better to rebuild and face one's fears than in 1906 San Francisco, a city rising from the ashes? Ruby Marshall, a young widow, is certain she'll discover new purpose assisting her brother Robert with his cancer research, but she doesn't anticipate finding new love. Dr. Gerald Larkspur dreams of filling his empty home with family, but he'd always hoped it would be a wife and children. In the aftermath of the great earthquake, the rooms are overflowing...
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
How one of the most impactful, lifesaving tests for women was created and popularized by a Greek immigrant and his wife, a famous Japanese-American illustrator who was detained in a WW2 internment camp, and a groundbreaking Black female surgeon. In the 1950's, survival rates from cancer of any kind were low. Damaging surgery and unsophisticated radiotherapy were the main treatments, assuming the disease was detected in time for anything to be done....
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