Chapter 6: “Lady’s on the Phone”
Papers from the first HeLa symposium were published in “The HeLa Cancer Control Symposi-
um: Presented at the First Annual Women’s Health Conference, Morehouse School of Medi-
cine, October 11, 1996,” edited by Roland Pattillo, American Journal of Obstetrics and
Gynecology suppl. 176, no. 6 (June 1997).
For an overview of the Tuskegee study aimed at the general public, see Bad Blood: The
Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, by James H. Jones; see also “Final Report of the Tuskegee
Syphilis Study Legacy Committee,” Vanessa Northington Gamble, chair (May 20, 1996).