Penn Valley - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot talks about her book and provides links to interviews, reviews and articles.

This site has articles and timelines for the development of various vaccines throughout history. Included are articles on Polio, Smallpox, HPV, HIV, Measles, Yellow Fever and other vaccines.

U. S. Department of Health and Human Services explanation of what is "informed consent" for medical procedures.

This site explains selection criteria, nomination procedures and list all Nobel Laureates subdivided by medical specialities. Additional information about the award winning research is provided for each Laureate.

The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation established as a result of the Nuremberg Trials at the end of the World War II.

The World Health Organization estimates that one fifth of the 70,000 kidneys transplanted worldwide every year come from the black market. Most of that trade can be explained by the simple laws of supply and demand.

The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard.

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in poor, rural black men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S. government.