human experimentation in medicine

"It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a 'scientist' determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect 'live specimen'--and kidnapped her"--OCLC.

When Blue Owens wakes up with the overwhelming feeling that something is wrong with her memory, she meets Adam Mendoza, who explains that she paid to have her unpleasant memories erased in order to "start over"--and that begins Blue's journey to recover her memories and understand the truth of why she felt the need to lose them in the first place.

Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.

After turning into a snakelike monster that terrifies both humans and ghouls, Kaneki's fate is in the hands of the ghouls and CCG who can't decide if they trust each other enough to work together.

Depicts the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern black woman, whose cells were taken from her body without her permission during the 1950s for medical research and continue to be alive and used more than sixty years after her death. Discusses the issues of owning our own bodies and why Henrietta's family was never informed about her "immortality" for more than twenty years after she died. Includes chapter notes, photographs, and an index.

Six and Three make a dangerous break for freedom and take a child with them, and although things don't go as planned, Six believes she has changed the future.

Six tries increasing her powers, and she draws closer to Three against her better judgment. Then something goes wrong at the lab and Six vows to escape.

Six meets Three at Hawkins Lab and remembers him as her neighbor back home. She learns he was always a part of the program and is angry with him for lying to her. Meanwhile, Six voices her fear of the future and is encouraged to take her skills to the next level.

In 1978, a teen girl named Francine has psychic abilities that cause her trouble at home. She is placed in the control of a government agency run by Dr. Brenner that wants to use her powers for its own ends, and renamed Six. There she sees a scary vision of the future.

In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product of Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva does not know if she can trust anyone she meets, least of all Jake Katz, the young man she is attracted to.