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Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Call Number: 616.027 Sk4i 2011
ISBN: 9781400052189
Publication Date: 2011-03-08
Audio Version on CD: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks [sound recording (10 CDs)] / Rebecca Skloot. 616.027 Sk4i CD
A Conspiracy of Cells by Michael Gold
Call Number: Available through MOBIUS
ISBN: 0887060994
Publication Date: 1985-10-01

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Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine by Damon Tweedy
Call Number: 610.92 T91b
ISBN: 9781250044631
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
The Inequality and African-American Health by Shirley A. Hill
Call Number: 362.1089 H55i
ISBN: 9781447322818
Publication Date: 2016-10-05
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Call Number: 174.28 W27m
ISBN: 9780385509930
Publication Date: 2007-01-09
Medicating Race by Anne Pollock
Call Number: 616.12 P76m
ISBN: 9780822353447
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee by Ralph Katz; Rueben C. Warren
Call Number: Request through MOBIUS
ISBN: 9780739147252
Publication Date: 2011-07-27

Subject Headings for Further Research

African Americans--Medical care - History
Human experimentation in medicine
Medical ethics
Medicine--Research
Patients--Legal status
Physicians--Malpractice
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Tuskegee Syphillis Study
Victims of crime--Legal status

Topic Ideas

Science:

Informed consent
Tissue ownership
Women's health
Medical experimentation on African Americans and other minorities
HPV and cervical cancer
HeLa cells
Vaccines
Biobanks
Eugenics
Human Genome/Gene mapping
Cloning
Polio vaccine

Social Sciences:

Racial segregation in medical treatment
The Great Migration
Tuskegee Study
Institutionalized racism
Poverty/class and medical treatment
Privacy
Donor compensation
Race, class, gender and health care
Nuremburg Code

English:

Ethics of biography or journalism
Symbolism
Character development
Setting
Writing Structure
Representing race or disease in science, literature, art
Genetics in speculative literature or science fiction

Current Issues:

Universal healthcare
Institutionalization of children
Pharmaceutical companies and research
Government funding and research
Medical ethics/Bioethics
Human vs. Animal research
Genetics on an individual and macro level
Money, science, and medicine

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Health Care Access
Health Care Legislation
Medical Care
Organ Donation and Transplantation
Poverty
Supreme Court
Vaccines
Cancer
Health Care Disparities
Human Genetics
Medical Ethics
Pharmaceutical Industry
Stem Cells
Terminal Care

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