A Few Words About This Book                        xiii
Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph              1   (8)
Deborah's Voice                                    9   (4)
  Part One Life
    1 The Exam ... 1951                            13  (5)
    2 Clover ... 1920-1942                         18  (9)
    3 Diagnosis and Treatment ... 1951             27  (7)
    4 The Birth of HeLa ... 1951                   34  (8)
    5 "Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside" ...       42  (7)
    1951
    6 "Lady's on the Phone" ... 1999               49  (7)
    7 The Death and Life of Cell Culture ...       56  (7)
    1951
    8 "A Miserable Specimen" ... 1951              63  (4)
    9 Turner Station ... 1999                      67  (10)
    10 The Other Side of the Tracks ... 1999       77  (6)
    11 "The Devil of Pain Itself" ... 1951         83  (6)
  Part Two Death
    12 The Storm ... 1951                          89  (4)
    13 The HeLa Factory ... 1951-1953              93  (12)
    14 Helen Lane ... 1953-1954                    105 (5)
    15 "Too Young to Remember" ... 1951-1965       110 (8)
    16 "Spending Eternity in the Same Place"       118 (9)
    ... 1999
    17 Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable ...        127 (10)
    1954-1966
    18 "Strangest Hybrid" ... 1960-1966            137 (7)
    19 "The Most Critical Time on This Earth Is    144 (8)
    Now" ... 1966-1973
    20 The HeLa Bomb ... 1966                      152 (6)
    21 Night Doctors ... 2000                      158 (12)
    22 "The Fame She So Richly Deserves" ...       170 (9)
    1970-1973
  Part Three Immortality
    23 "It's Alive" ... 1973-1974                  179 (12)
    24 "Least They Can Do" ... 1975                191 (8)
    25 "Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?"    199 (8)
    ... 1976-1988
    26 Breach of Privacy ... 1980-1985             207 (5)
    27 The Secret of Immortality ... 1984-1995     212 (6)
    28 After London ... 1996-1999                  218 (14)
    29 A Village of Henriettas ... 2000            232 (9)
    30 Zakariyya ... 2000                          241 (9)
    31 Hela, Goddess of Death ... 2000-2001        250 (9)
    32 "All That's My Mother" ... 2001             259 (9)
    33 The Hospital for the Negro Insane ...       268 (11)
    2001
    34 The Medical Records ... 2001                279 (7)
    35 Soul Cleansing ... 2001                     286 (8)
    36 Heavenly Bodies ... 2001                    294 (3)
    37 "Nothing to Be Scared About" ... 2001       297 (8)
    38 The Long Road to Clover ... 2009            305 (6)
Where They Are Now                                 311 (3)
About the Henrietta Lacks Foundation               314 (1)
Afterword                                          315 (14)
Cast of Characters                                 329 (4)
Timeline                                           333 (4)
Acknowledgments                                    337 (9)
Notes                                              346 (21)
Index                                              367 (12)
Reading Group Guide                                379