About the book about Lacks that I mentioned in class: "...the science end of this story is enough to blow one's mind... But what's truly remarkable... is that we also get the rest of the story, the part that could have easily remained hidden had she not spent ten years unearthing it: Who was Henrietta Lacks? How did she live? How she did die? Did her family know that she'd become, in some sense, immortal, and how did that affect them?" -Jad Abumrad, Radiolab
There's a movie too.