The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
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The work The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.
- Label
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
- Statement of responsibility
- Rebecca Skloot
- Subject
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- 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
- 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.
- Study program name
- Reading Counts RC
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
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