Format:
Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Read-along
Title:
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks [sound recording] / Rebecca Skloot.
Author:
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
Call Number:
616.02774 Skloot CD BOOK
Publisher, Date:
New York : Random House Audio, p2010.
Description:
10 sound discs (12 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Subjects:
Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health.
Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Biography.
African American women -- History.
Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
HeLa cells.
Cancer -- Research.
Cell culture.
Medical ethics.
Unabridged audiobooks.
Spoken compact discs.
Nonfiction audiobooks.
Genre:
Audiobooks.
Compact discs.
Other Author:
Campbell, Cassandra.
Turpin, Bahni.
ISBN:
9780307712509
0307712508