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Brand New Audiobook The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot 10 CD
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Audiobook
- Era
- 2010s
- Case Type
- Paper Sleeve
- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Audio CD, Unabridged
- Run Time
- 12.5 Hours
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Narrator
- Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- ISBN
- 9780451486318
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Science, Medical, Social Science
- Topic
- General, Women's Studies, Life Sciences / Biology, Science & Technology
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."-- Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE * ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL" (CNN), "DEFINING" ( LITHUB ), AND "BEST" ( THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER ) BOOKS OF THE DECADE * WINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NONFICTION NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * Entertainment Weekly * O: The Oprah Magazine * NPR * Financial Times * New York * Independent (U.K.) * Times (U.K.) * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * Kirkus Reviews * Booklist * Globe and Mail Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine: The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, which are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Henrietta's family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family--past and present--is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family--especially Henrietta's daughter Deborah. Deborah was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Had they killed her to harvest her cells? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn't her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0451486315
ISBN-13
9780451486318
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219441569
Product Key Features
Book Title
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
General, Women's Studies, Life Sciences / Biology, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Science, Medical, Social Science
Dimensions
Item Length
5.8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
10 Vols.
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
616.02774092
Dewey Edition
22
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