Library Guides: ReadUP 2018: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Medical Ethics

The ethical dilemma continues...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel
New York Times by Rebecca Skloot, March 23, 2013
Your Cells. Their Research. Your Permission?
New York Times by Rebecca Skloot, December 30th, 2015
NIH and Lacks Family Reach Deal over use of HeLa Genome
September 19th, 2017. Author's webpage details events that followed the publishing of the "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel" Op-Ed in the New York Times.

HeLa

"HeLa Cells" by Euan is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Johns Hopkins: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks

To honor the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks, this video highlights her impact on biomedical research and the efforts of Johns Hopkins Medicine to pay homage to her legacy. Learn more here.

Excerpt from: Cancer Cell Research, The Way of All Flesh

This program examines how HeLa cells have advanced the war on cancer and why they have caused controversy among scientists in the highly politicized research community.

Film: Cancer Cell Research: The Way of All Flesh (series: How Scientists Research Cells; Cells eLM Video Series, 1997) Find whole documentary here: Films On Demand