For Your Information
Online
“10 Unapologetic Books About Race in America.” Early Bird Books.
“Deal Done Over HeLa Cell Line.” Nature.
“A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later.” The New York Times.
“Five Reasons Henrietta Lacks Is the Most Important Woman in Medical History.” Popular Science.
“‘Henrietta Lacks’: A Donor’s Immortal Legacy.” NPR.
“Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells.” Smithsonian.com.
“How Rebecca Skloot Built The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” The Open Notebook.
“Learning the Wrong Lessons on Privacy from Henrietta Lacks.” The Washington Post.
“Your Cells. Their Research. Your Permission?” The New York Times.
Books
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by James H. Jones
Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technology by Hannah Landecker
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Paid Servant by E. R. Braithwaite