Race & Medicine in history: Use of Henrietta Lacks' cervical cells without her consent

Author Rebecca Skloot's giving a talk in Indy tonight.

NYT: Second Opinion

A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Gift

By DENISE GRADY

Published: February 2, 2010

Without her family’s knowledge, doctors used cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks to develop vaccines and life-saving drugs, a case examined in a book that looks at the issue of “tissue rights.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/health/02seco.html