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Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot. - Unabridged. - 10 audio discs (12 hr., 31 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - 123000

Compact disc. Title from container. Includes an interview with the author.

Read by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin.

Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern tobacco farmer, was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells -- taken without her knowledge, grown in culture and bought and sold by the billions -- became one of the most important tools in medical research. Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta's family struggles with her legacy.



ISBN: 9780307712509 : $34.99 0307712508 : $34.99 9780451486318 0451486315 9780307712523 0307712524

Standard No.: 9780307712509 9780451486318

Publisher. No.: RHCD 2868 Random House Audio 8385-CD Random House Audio RHCD 2868 Random House Audio

Subjects--Personal Names:
Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 --Health.
Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cancer--Patients--Virginia--Biography.
African American women--History.
Human experimentation in medicine--History.--United States
HeLa cells.
Cancer--Research.
Cell culture.
Medical ethics.
African American women.
Cancer--Patients.
Cancer--Research.
Cell culture.
Health.
HeLa cells.
Human experimentation in medicine.
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.
CULTURAL HERITAGE / African.
CULTURAL HERITAGE / African American.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.
Virginia.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Audiobooks.
Biographies.
Audiobooks.
History.

LC Class. No.: RC265.6.L24 / S55 2010ab

Dewey Class. No.: 616.02774092 B

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WO 690 / S628i 2010