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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher number: RHCD 2868 | Random House Audio8385-CD | Random House AudioRHCD 2868 | Random House AudioPublisher: New York : Random House Audio, [2010]Copyright date: ℗2010Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 10 audio discs (12 hr., 31 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • spoken word
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
ISBN:
  • 9780307712509 :
  • 0307712508 :
  • 9780451486318
  • 0451486315
  • 9780307712523
  • 0307712524
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.02774092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • RC265.6.L24 S55 2010ab
NLM classification:
  • WO 690
Read by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin.Summary: 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.
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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.

Reading Counts RC High School 11. 22 Quiz: 54826.

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