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• Social Networks and Games
  • Facebook:Henrietta Lacks (aka HeLa)
  • Jeopardy! game: reader-generated online game
  • HeLa Forum: Share your story and join the conversation.
• Blogs
  • First Annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture at Johns Hopkins
  • Science Blogs: My Mother's Hairbrush and the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • Adam Curtis's blog: The Undead Henrietta Lacks And Her Immortal Dynasty
• Videos
  • Henrietta Lack - CBS Sunday Morning
  • The Way of All Flesh Documentary -A 1997 BBC documentary about Henrietta Lacks.
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - Official Trailer
• Podcasts
  • Radiolab: Henrietta's Tumor
  • Fresh Air (NPR): 'Henrietta Lacks': A Donor's Immortal Legacy
  • Talk of the Nation (NPR): Rebecca Skloot interview about 'Common Reads' College Programs and The Immortal Life

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Library Guide on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Includes: Books, Web Sites, Videos, Reviews and much more.

Find a Book

Using the CCBC Online Catalog find books or media for background information on your topic. Some topics might include:Turner Station, medical ethics, cell biology, human experimentation, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Mentally Ill and Epilepsy and more.

Find an article: Magazine, Journals, and Newspapers

The library subscribes to a number of research databases. For a complete list of resources go to Articles and Research Databases. These databases are available on or off campus. You will need your student ID number and a password for off campus. Off campus instructions to view articles

Suggested Databases

The Database you choose will be dependent on your topic. Here is a list of some of these databases below.

Health and Medical Information on cancer and cell biology.

• CINAHL & CINAHL PLUS with Full Text - Provides indexing for journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Full text articles from medical and health journals. Also provides abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals.
• Nursing Journals - Offers complete text and images from leading nursing and related publications 1988-present.
• JAMA Online JAMA Online is the full-text version of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
• Current Issues: Health - Covers a wide variety of current health issues relevant in today's world.
• Health Source: Consumer Edition- Information on many health topics.
• See also the Science Databases

Culture and Diversity Databases: Information on African American culture

• Ethnic NewsWatch/GenderWatch - A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on ethnic/gender issues.

Social Science and History Databases: Information onAfrican American's in 1950's and medical ethics.

• U.S. & World History (Resource Center) In Context Provides reference, full-text articles,primary sources, images, maps and charts on research materials for the study of history.
• SocINDEX with Full Text Full text articles and abstracts of Sociology journals dating back to 1895.
• Humanities International Provides full text of hundreds of journals, ebooks and other published sources from around the world.
• ProQuest Social Science Journals - Search full-text periodicals covering the social sciences.

Also use the General Purpose Databases and some Current Issues Databases to find general articles on your topic.

• Credo Reference - Full-text articles covering major subjects. Credo combines content from over 505 reference ebooks and contains authoritative answers.
• ProQuest Central - Search the full collection of journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general reference subjects.
• Academic Search Premier - Articles from research-oriented materials, journals, and general interest magazines.
• National Newspapers and The Baltimore Sun in Proquest -Searches the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, and Baltimore Sun all at once.

Find Web sites

• The World Wide Web can provide a wealth of good resources. It can also contain inaccurate, outdated, erroneous information and unreliable sites. You can start with evaluated sites available from directories such as: Internet Public Library (IPL) and Infomine.
• If you go to a search engine such as Google or Yahoo , remember that the advanced search capabilities allow for more focused searching. See alsoBest Search Tools Chart.
• Always evaluate web pages! Use the handout: Criteria for Evaluating Web Documents to help.