| Authors: |
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
Campbell, Cassandra.
Turpin, Bahni.
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| Material type: |
CD-Audiobook |
| Subject: |
Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Biography.
African American women -- History.
Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History.
HeLa cells.
Cancer -- Research.
Cell culture.
Medical ethics.
Audiobooks.
Compact discs.
Lacks, Henrietta,1920-1951 -- Health.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Random House Audio, p2010. |
| Description: |
10 sound discs (12 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: |
9780307712509 0307712508 9780307712523 |
| Notes: |
Compact disc. |
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Distributors vary. |
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Read by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin. |
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| Rating: |
5 out of 5: They loved it |
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| 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. |