The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

(1952); and D. Pearlman, “Value of Mammalian Cell Culture as Biochemical Tool,” Science 160 (April 1969); and N. P. Salzman, “An ...

Chapter 14: Helen Lane The debate about releasing Henrietta’s name to the public is documented in letters located in the AMCA. T ...

Chapter 17: Illegal, Immoral, and Deplorable Southam’s cancer cell injections are documented in many scientific articles he auth ...

as is George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin’s The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation. Bo ...

Chapter 18: The Strangest Hybrid Instructions for growing HeLa at home were published in C. L. Stong, “The Amateur Scientist: Ho ...

plements of Human Chromosomes and Functioning Human Genes,” Proceedings of the Na- tional Academy of Sciences 58, no. 3 (Septemb ...

Chapter 20: The HeLa Bomb For this chapter I relied on communications and other documents housed at the AMCA and the TCAA, and o ...

Chapter 21: Night Doctors Sources for information about night doctors and the history of black Americans and medical research in ...

Chapter 22: “The Fame She So Richly Deserves” For the paper in which Henrietta’s real name was first published, see H. W. Jones, ...

(February 16, 2007). The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks ...

PART THREE: IMMORTALITY ...

Chapter 23: “It’s Alive” This chapter relied in part on letters housed at the AMCMA, on Deborah Lacks’s medical re- cords, and o ...

Chapter 24: “Least They Can Do” What started as Microbiological Associates grew to become part of several other, larger com- pan ...

Chapter 25: “Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?” Much of the Moore story appears in court and government documents, particul ...

Act of 1993,” (103rd Congress, S.387) introduced February 18, 1993. Details of the oil-consuming bacteria involved in Chakrabart ...

Chapter 26: Breach of Privacy Whether the publication of a person’s medical records would violate HIPAA today depends on many fa ...

identity with initials wouldn’t have worked,” he said. “Anyone can figure out who she is, since her name has already been connec ...

Chapter 27: The Secret of Immortality For more on Jeremy Rifkin’s lawsuits, see Foundation on Economic Trends et al. v. Otis R. ...

Chapter 28: After London For HeLa symposium information, see notes for chapter 6. For a sampling of Cofield’s long legal history ...

Chapter 29: A Village of Henriettas For the Hopkins Magazine story referenced here, see Rebecca Skloot, “Henrietta’s Dance,” Joh ...