The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Edition
Unabridged version.
Performers
Reading by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin of the 2009 book.
Publication Information
New York : Random House Audio, p2010.
Physical Description
10 sound discs (12 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Notes
Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Subjects
- Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography.
- Cervix uteri > Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography.
- African American women > Biography.
- Human experimentation in medicine > United States > History.
- HeLa cells.
- Cancer > Research.
- Cell culture.
- Human cell culture.
- Medical ethics.
- Audiobooks.
- Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951 > Health.