Question

1. Provide background information about the case of Henrietta Lacks. 2. Explain two key ethical issues affecting the Henrietta Lacks case. 2B. Include whether these ethical issues outweigh the benefits of scientific discovery.

Answer 1

ANSWER:

1.) Henrietta lacks' case: Henrietta lacks was under anesthesia on an operating table at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore one day! in 1951, undergoing treatment for conical cancer. harpital researcher had been collecting conical cancer cells to see if they would grow continously in the laboratory, so the surgeon treating Lacks shaved a dine - sized piece of tirrue from her tumor for that project. Nobody had asked Lacks if she wanted to provide cells for the research. she died later that ( year, 2) Ethical issues * The consent of the patient to having her tissue used for research. & who owns that tissue and what rights do Providers of samples have over their own cells. 2B) ethical issues over scientific discovery At that time consent was not that important. - And once a specimen is no longer needed for treating the patient and would otherwire be discarded, scientists can use it for research. so it outweighs the ethical issue