...The Immortality of Ethics in Science and Medicine Rebecca Skloot’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” raises a number of ethical questions through the story of a woman whose immortal cells have made and continue to make an incredible difference in the world of science and medicine. A doctor’s duty is to treat and care for patients, regardless of their race, ethnicity, and income level. In the mid-1900’s, however, few medical professionals practiced medicine in this manner. Low-income, black patients who could not afford a high standard of care were forced to seek care in facilities which often viewed them as research subjects. Henrietta Lacks sought medical care in the Johns Hopkins University Hospital where she began painfully deteriorating...
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...In the book The “Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” By Rebecca Skloot, it told a story about the life of Henrietta Lacks as well explain the issues of tissue collection. Tissue collection causes lots of issue like the arguments of ownership, privacy, consent, and compensation. Tissue collection causes arguments over ownership. People tend to have a strong sense of ownership when it comes to their body. One main and important point in the debate over ownership of human biological materials Scientist feared that if tissue samples including blood cells were considered patients property then researches taking them without getting consent would be charged with theft, which would “create chaos for researchers”. They were worried that “patients would block the progress of science by holding out for excessive profits” which could possibly happen. When tissue are a part of your body they are clearly yours but when they are taken away from your body things get questionable, because of this it causes an issue in tissue collection...
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...In the non-fiction novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, Henrietta died of cervical cancer in 1951, a few months before her death samples were taken. Those samples became an important search for the cure of the cancer she had. She encounters health risks that are dangers and increased her chances of illnesses. She faces poverty, race, and a low quality education. These factors cause internal and external conflicts on a great ‘magnitude’. Henrietta Lacks was an unprivileged woman who came from a low economic status. She had inconveniences getting seen while she was ill due to the fact that she had no transportation and without a way to get seen by a doctor her health declined. Her nutrition was at a standstill. Do to...
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...Two sets of research will be covered in this paper first we have prevaricator, John D’Agata with his research article Lifespan of a Fact and second Rebecca Skloot book/research, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The purpose of this paper is to detail the day and night between the two pieces, the literary analysis and the overall attitude felt by the authors. Starting off from a quote out of D'Agata's article "I'm not writing for public office. I'm trying to write something that's interesting to read.” That's D'Agata summed up in one sentence. He is merely writing for entertainment and sport. Not interested in the truth in the least but how he can bend the truth to fit his story so it sounds good. While on the other hand Skloot gives a nice story in chronological order. Not only that but she gives us history of the time period in which she is investigating. She also gives a nice genealogy of Lacks life and family. This is something not found in D'Agata's research, this is actual facts about the person being researched....
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...Part 2 of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks focuses on the research done on Henrietta’s cells after her death. There were negative and positive impacts because of the research done on the so called HeLa cells. The Lacks family didn’t trust white doctors anymore because of the lies they had been told. Day initially refused permission to perform an autopsy, but he was deceived into believing that it would benefit his family. Society, at the time, didn’t see this as an issue. These 10 chapters in part two of the book have a lot of unethical experimentations performed because of the testing of the HeLa cells. The main point of the reading was to reveal to the readers how disreputable doctors were back in the 60’s because of how they treated black patients. All of this ties back to Henrietta’s cells as well. The scientific studies performed with the...
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...The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a very inspirational story written by Rebecca Skloot. This story takes place from around the year 1951, when Henrietta was admitted into John Hopkins Hospital for cervical cancer, until 2010, the year of publication. This book discusses the medical, ethical, and legal issues that occurred throughout the case of HeLa cells. I believe we read this book to learn of the importance of consent and knowledge before beginning our journey in the medical field. The story is centered around Henrietta Lacks, a poor, African American tobacco farmer, who was born in 1920. She resided in Clover, Virginia, with her husband, David Lacks, and five children, Lawrence, Elsie, David, Deborah, and Zakariyya. Later, in search...
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...important member who unknowingly impacts other people in many ways. In the 20th century biography The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot utilizes the rhetorical strategy of emotional appeals to reveal that physical, mental, and emotional pain bring effects that can greatly impact and separate families. The physical and emotional pain that people feel due to cancer devastates the sufferers as they divide from their family. In Henrietta’s case, she desires to keep her sickness a secret so she does not upset anyone or cause a large fuss: “No sense upsetting anyone over something she could deal with herself”(Skloot 31). Skloot builds despair as she emphasizes how Henrietta does not communicate to her family about her cancer because she does not want to cause any trouble. On top of Henrietta’s desire to prevent her family from worry, the cancer embarrasses her and seems difficult to speak of. Consequently to Henrietta’s choice to remain quiet about her fatal illness, her family expresses even more surprise and anxiety when they actually discover what Henrietta goes through and how she suffers. Even though Henrietta stays strong and tries to tough out the pain without her...
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...Henrietta Lacks was a poor tobacco farmer and mother of five who died of cervical cancer at thirty-one. Lacks spent most of her last year being treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. George Gey was the Lead scientist of tissue culture at Johns Hopkins, and his goal was to successfully grow a line of immortal cells that could continue to live outside the body. In 1951, shortly after Henrietta’s death, Gey realized Lack’s cells were what he was looking for and could help him in his research. He then ordered for additional cells to be removed from Henrietta’s tumor, which he then grew and distributed without the consent of Lacks or her family. This was very inappropriate and disrespectful. Rebecca Skloot author of the book: “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” describes these actions and treatment of the...
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...A main ethical issue raised in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is informed consent. During 1951 and 2009, when this book was pressed, health care workers were not legally required to obtain informed consent from their patients. Among those patients was Henrietta Lacks. As described in this book, her cells were taken without her permission and used in research around the world. Her story raised concern among the healthcare industry whether tissue researchers should be forced to get informed consent. The author, Rebecca Skloot, never specified her beliefs but can be assumed that she is for informed consent because of her experience around the Lacks family and the struggles they faced. If doctors want to gather tissues from patients strictly for research purposes, I do not believe they need to obtain...
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...The existence of Rebecca Skloot as a character in her book, The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, provides meaningful and necessary dialog to the story that is an insight to the physiological tolls that the cells take on Deborah and her family. In “Medical Records”, it becomes clear that Deborah still does not trust Rebecca with the medical records. Deborah asks, “Who you working for? Hopkins?”, and Rebecca responds by reminding her of their last conversation they had over the same topic. The suspicion that Deborah has for Rebecca is a massive aspect of the story that displays the fears and skepticism that the Lacks family has because of the times that they were wronged by John Hopkins. Shortly after the argument cited above, Deborah agrees...
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...involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. More simply put, it is the standards that members of a profession must follow. In psychology, ethics plays a big role in psychology because it protects the client and the counselor as well. However, in the case on Henrietta Lacks, it seems that there was no room for ethics during these scientists studies. Henrietta Lacks was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951. She was considered one of the most important tools in medicine and vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning gene mapping, and more (Skloot, 2010). Summary In an Internet video, Film Media Group (2012) states that in 1860, Benjamin Lacks had two children by a black mistress and they all worked in the tobacco field for three generations. Then, in 1942, Benjamin Lack's great granddaughter Henrietta Lacks (her friends called her “Hennie”) moved to Baltimore and died there in 1951. Right before she died, her cancer cells were taken from her body to help research and “conquer death.” Since then, her cells have been growing and multiplying since. There was a laboratory close to where Henrietta lived. In that laboratory was Dr. George Gey who wanted to rid the world of cancer. After a gynecologist appointment, abnormal, purple and cancerous tissue was given to Dr. Gey to study and from there, the study began. Afraid of a potential lawsuit from Henrietta's family, Dr. Gey kept the secret of...
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...Julian Jane Atim, MBChB, MPH Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG) Stephanie Cantu Harvard Medical School Jonelle Wright, PhD, RN University of Miami Introduction This module consists of four (4) sections. After completing the training, you will take a short quiz on the training content. After completing the quiz, we ask you to answer a few optional questions to give your view of this training module. Learning Objectives By the end of this module, you should be able to: Describe the concept of Cultural Competence in Research Explain the importance of Cultural Competence in Research Describe ways to enhance the engagement of diverse populations and communities in research Identify cultural competence challenges faced by researchers when working with culturally diverse populations Cultural Competence in Research Culture is fundamental to everyone's perceived identity. It is a mix of one's values, beliefs, standards, norms, behaviors, language, communication styles, and thinking patterns.[1] Cultural competence refers to understanding the importance of social and cultural influence on the beliefs and behaviors of the patient, student, colleague or client.[2] Cultural competence in health care describes the ability of systems and health care professionals to provide high quality care to patients with diverse backgrounds, values, beliefs, and behaviors, including communicating effectively and tailoring delivery to meet patients' social, cultural and linguistic...
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...Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Bloom's Classic Critical Views alfred, lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens edgar allan poe Geoffrey Chaucer George eliot George Gordon, lord Byron henry David Thoreau herman melville Jane austen John Donne and the metaphysical poets John milton Jonathan Swift mark Twain mary Shelley Nathaniel hawthorne Oscar Wilde percy Shelley ralph Waldo emerson robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Edited and with an Introduction by Sterling professor of the humanities Yale University harold Bloom Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: William Shakespeare Copyright © 2010 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom : Neil Heims, volume editor. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references...
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