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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (First Year Read, 2017)

A guide to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010), the inaugural book of the First Year Reading Program at Stevens

Henrietta Lacks and the Lacks Family

Henrietta Lacks with her husband, David.

Image source: Nature, with credit to Lacks family/ITV/Rex Features

The extended family of Henrietta Lacks.

Image source: The Lacks Family

Lacks Family Website
The website of the extended Lacks family.
The Lacks Family on Facebook
Henrietta Lacks Foundation
Founded by Rebecca Skloot "to provide assistance to individuals and their families who have been directly impacted by such research ... [and] to promote public discourse concerning the role that contributions of biological materials play in scientific research and disease prevention, as well as issues related to consent, and disparities in access to health care and research benefits, particularly for minorities and underserved communities."

Timeline Credit

The Timeline of Events was created by and used with the kind permission of Manchester Community College.

"Henrietta's Tumor" Radiolab podcast (2010, reaired 2017)

"The Way of All Flesh" documentary (1998)

By Adam Curtis (1998)