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Websites Related to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2012 One Book Project

 

Emerging Technologies - cases, essays, ethical guidelines, and other materials bearing on the specific ethical issues arising from numerous emerging technologies. From the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research.

Ethics in human experimentation in science-based medicine - exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine.

Henrietta Lacks Foundation - Established by author Rebecca Skloot, the Foundation strives to provide financial assistance to needy individuals who have made important contributions to scientific research without personally benefitting from those contributions, particularly those used in research without their knowledge or consent.

Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells - A Smithsonian Magazine interview with Rebecca Skloot

A History of U.S. Secret Human Experimentation

Rebecca Skloot - more information about the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and her work

 

 

 

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Booklists
First, Do No Harm: Medical Ethics and Human Experimentation in Fiction
Henrietta and Calpurnia: Audiobooks
Medical Ethics, Research and Human Experimentation: Nonfiction Related to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Exploring Science and Nature: Books for Kids & Teens Related to The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate


 

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