UWRT 150 Writing Seminar (Schmitz): Health Databases

This guide points to resources related to the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
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Medical Articles Databases

Recommended Articles from Bluford Library

These citations are formatted in AMA (American Medical Association) style.

5 Reasons Henrietta Lacks is the Most Important Woman in Medical History. Popular Science [serial online]. February 2010, 276(2), 81. Available from: Academic Search Elite, Ipswich, MA. Accessed August 21, 2015.

Howard W. Jones Jr., Record of the first physician to see Henrietta Lacks at the Johns Hopkins Hospital: History of the beginning of the HeLa cell line, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. June 1997; 176(6), s227-s228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9378(97)70379-X. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000293789770379X)

Henrietta Lacks, HeLa Cells, and Cell Culture Contamination. Archives Of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine [serial online]. September 2009;133(9):1463-1467. Available from: Academic Search Elite, Ipswich, MA. Accessed August 21, 2015

Sarah Zielinski. Cracking the Code of the Human Genome: Henrietta Lacks' 'Immortal Cells'. January 22, 2010. Available from Smithsonian.com. Accessed August 21, 2015.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Journal Of Popular Culture [serial online]. August 2010;43(4):916-918. Available from: Academic Search Elite, Ipswich, MA. Accessed August 21, 2015.

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