- Rebecca Skloot. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York City: Crown Publishing , 2010.
- Harriet Washington . Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present . New York City: Harlem Moon, 2006.
- J Jones. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. New York: Free Press, 1981.
- Susan Reverby . Examining Tuskegee:The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
- Donald A. Barr. Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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- R. A. Hope. Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5686132/
IMDB page for the HBO production of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
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http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
UNESCO's Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
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https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/cervical/index.htm
CDC page with information on cervical cancer, the disease that killed Henrietta Lacks.
- David Dobb. "How Rebecca Skloot Built The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." Open Notebook. November 22, 2011 . September 16, 2016. <http://www.theopennotebook.com/2011/11/22/rebecca-skloot-henrietta-lacks/>.
- Grace Schmidt. "Biography for Rebecca Skloot." Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Spring 2012. September 16, 2016. <https://secureapps.libraries.psu.edu/PACFTB/bios/biography.cfm?AuthorID=7757>.
- Ari N. Schulman. "What Is the Body Worth?." The New Atlantis . Spring 2012. September 16, 2016. <http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-is-the-body-worth>.
- Lenika Cruz. "An Uneven Tribute to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." The Atlantic. April 24, 2017. March 2, 2018. <https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks/523962/>.
- Rebecca Skloot. "Your Cells. Their Research. Your Permission?." The New York Times . Dec. 30, 2015. March 2, 2018. <https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/opinion/your-cells-their-research-your-permission.html?referer=>.
- Alison Flood. "Henrietta Lacks biographer Rebecca Skloot responds to US parent over 'porn' allegation." The Guardian . Sept 9, 2015. March 2, 2018. <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/09/henrietta-lacks-book-rebecca-kloots-porn-allegation-tennessee-parent>.
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