The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
I need a 4 page paper on the ethics of the scenario presented in the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
Some starting ideas would be autonomy, beneficence, and justice. It will be run through turnitin, so be careful about quotes and citations.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks or as scientists referred to her, HeLa, tells the story of a young black woman form a poor background who died of cervical cancer at the age of thirty one. Before she passed on, scientists had taken some of the tumor cells and these cells have been used in the medical field in different ways and by the use of her cells the scientists made a break through with the production of human cells for tests and medical experiments. Her cells have been very helpful in the cloning, development of the polio vaccine, in vitro fertilization among…
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