Books like The vaccine race by Meredith Wadman

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks follows the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cancer cells were taken in 1951 without her consent and later became the first immortal human cell line, HeLa, driving major scientific breakthroughs while raising questions of ethics, race, and medical exploitation.

A harrowing look into the unethical medical experiments conducted in the Philadelphia prison system from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Maurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same. Born into the life of a Montana chicken farmer, Hilleman ran off to the University of Chicago to become a microbiologist, and eventually joined Merck, the pharmaceutical company, to pursue his goal of eliminating childhood disease. Chief among his accomplishments are nine vaccines that practically every child gets, rendering formerly dread diseases—including often devastating ones such as mumps and rubella—practically toothless and nearly forgotten; his measles vaccine alone saves several million lives every year.Vaccinated is not a biography; Hilleman's experience forms the basis for a rich and lively narrative of two hundred years of medical history, ranging across the globe and throughout time to take in a cast of hundreds, all caught up, intentionally or otherwise, in the story of vaccines. It is an inspiring and triumphant tale, but one with a cautionary aspect, as vaccines come under assault from people blaming vaccines for autism and worse. Paul Offit clearly and compellingly rebuts those arguments, and, by demonstrating how much the work of Hilleman and others has gained for humanity, shows us how much we have to lose.

A sweeping historical account of U.S. government experiments on human subjects in nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare from World War II to the present, examining policy, ethics, and secrecy.

An authoritative study of race, medicine, and human experimentation, examining the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and its enduring legacy amid the AIDS epidemic.

An academic study of early human radiation experimentation, featuring primary source data and testimony from Dr. Eugene Saenger, examining the medical, ethical, and physiological impacts recorded at Cincinnati General Hospital.