The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Related Issues
Medical Ethics
Articles
- Racial Bias Seen in Study of Lead Dust and Children in New York Times
- Kennedy Krieger sued over lead paint study from the Baltimore Sun
Web Sites
- Democracy Now - U.S. syphilis experiments on Guatemalans--infecting them with the disease from1946 to 1948 - A White House bioethics commission has revealed gruesome new details about venereal disease experiments.
- "North Carolina Eugenics Board Victims Fight For Justice (VIDEO)" Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized more than 7,600 individuals in the name of "improving" the state's human stock. By the time the program was halted, the majority of those neutered were young, black, poor women – like Riddick.(Submitted by Karina Shipps, an adjunct prof. at Catonsville)
African American Culture in 1950's
Turner Station/Baltimore/Sparrows Point
Books
- Turner Station - Jerome Watson Call Number: F189.T69 W38 2008
- Wives of steel : voices of women from the Sparrows Point steelmaking communities - Karen Olson Call Number: HQ1439.S63 O46 2005
- The Baltimore book : new views of local history
- From the Meadows to the Point : the histories of the African American community of Turner Station and what was the African American community in Sparrows Poin - Louis S. Diggs Call Number: F189 .T87 D54 2003
African American's Medical Care
- Bad blood : the Tuskegee syphilis experiment - James H. Jones Call Number: R853.H8J66 1983
- Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy - Susan M. Reverby Call Number: R853.H8 R48 2009
- Tuskegee's truths : rethinking the Tuskegee syphilis study - Susan M. Reverby Call Number: R853.H8 T87 2000
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Books
Images
- A legacy of life - Image of Henrietta and her husband from the Boston Globe.
