The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
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SoundPublisher: New York : Random House Audio, [2010]Copyright date: ℗2010Description: 10 audio discs (12 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9780451486318; 0451486315Subject(s): 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 | Tissue Donors -- United States -- Biography | Tissue and Organ Procurement -- ethics -- United States | African Americans -- United States -- Biography | Confidentiality -- ethics -- United States | Hela Cells -- United States | History, 20th Century -- United States | Human Experimentation -- ethics -- United States | Prejudice -- United StatesGenre/Form: Audiobooks on CD.DDC classification: 616/.02774092 | B LOC classification: RC265.6.L24 | S55 2010bOnline resources: View cover art Reading by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin of the 2009 book.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.
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Reading by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin of the 2009 book.
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.
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