| Discipline | Selected Themes and Topics |
| STEM | cancer; cell culture; human experimentation in medicine; informed consent; medical ethics; cell reproduction; tissue harvesting; analysis of machines George Gey invented to grow cells; Current Tissue Culture Technology; Regenerative medicine |
| Business | business of tissue harvesting and economic impact; Intellectual Property Laws |
| Social Sciences | Standards for Ethical Research; impact on the Lacks family and descendants; treatment of Henrietta Lacks's family after her death; moral and social aspects of medical ethics; medical care of minorities |
| English and PTC | storytelling; fact checking; linguistics; science writing; non-fiction writing |
| History | medical history; ethical history; treatment of classes and races in 1950s & 1960s; impact of science research of HBCUs in 1950s and 1960s; Nuremberg Code; Tuskegee Syphillis Study; Nuremberg Trials |
HBO’s film adaptation of Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, starring Oprah Winfrey as Deborah Lacks, Renee Elise Goldsberry as Henrietta Lacks, and Rose Byrne as Rebecca Skloot premiered on HBO Saturday, April 22, 2017.
Many universities have selected The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as their Common Read. These LibGuides were created by librarians at those institutions to share more information about the book. Each guide shared here has its own unique features that are best experienced at the original location.
This video was researched, written, and performed by 7th and 8th graders from KIPP Bridge Charter in Oakland, California.