The Resource The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Resource Information
The item The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 10 audio discs (12 hr., 31 min.)
- Note
-
- Compact disc
- Title from container
- Includes an interview with the author
- Isbn
- 9780451486318
- Label
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
- Title
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
- Statement of responsibility
- Rebecca Skloot
- Subject
-
- Audiobooks
- Biographies
- Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Biography
- Cancer -- Research
- Cell culture
- Compact discs
- HeLa cells
- History
- Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health
- Medical ethics
- United States
- Virginia
- African American women -- History
- Audiobooks
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1972-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Skloot, Rebecca
- Dewey number
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- 616/.02774092
- B
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- Interest level
- High School
- LC call number
- RC265.6.L24
- LC item number
- S55 2010ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- biography
- Music parts
- not applicable
- NLM call number
- WO 690
- NLM item number
- S628i 2010
- PerformerNote
- Read by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin
- Reading level
- 11.
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Campbell, Cassandra
- Turpin, Bahni
- Random House Audio Publishing
- Study program name
- Reading Counts RC
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Lacks, Henrietta
- Lacks, Henrietta
- Cancer
- African American women
- Human experimentation in medicine
- HeLa cells
- Cancer
- Cell culture
- Medical ethics
- United States
- Virginia
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
- Note
-
- Compact disc
- Title from container
- Includes an interview with the author
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
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- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn502981421
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 10 audio discs (12 hr., 31 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780451486318
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9780451486318
- Other physical details
- CD audio, digital
- Publisher number
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- 8385-CD
- RHCD 2868
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
- Note
-
- Compact disc
- Title from container
- Includes an interview with the author
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn502981421
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 10 audio discs (12 hr., 31 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780451486318
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9780451486318
- Other physical details
- CD audio, digital
- Publisher number
-
- 8385-CD
- RHCD 2868
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Audiobooks
- Biographies
- Cancer -- Patients -- Virginia -- Biography
- Cancer -- Research
- Cell culture
- Compact discs
- HeLa cells
- History
- Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 -- Health
- Medical ethics
- United States
- Virginia
- African American women -- History
- Audiobooks
Genre
Included in
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Science
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Paperback Nonfiction
Library Locations
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Cleveland Park LibraryBorrow it3310 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20008, US38.9338203 -77.05791820000002
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