Running head: TESTING WITH A POSSIBLE DEATH SENTENCE Testing With a Possible Death Sentence (An analysis of American mal-practice stemming from the Henrietta Lacks story) Testing with possible death sentence We can perceive past and future medical advancement through two very different lenses. One lens is clean and colorful and paints an innovative and hopeful picture of the present and future, and therefore many folks enjoy looking through it and
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt – Female Astronomer My choice of topic is about a women astronomer, Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer, whose work revolutionized human understanding of the relative variability and brightness of the stars. Henrietta’s greatest achievement was in finding out the period- luminosity relationship of variable stars – stars whose brightness keeps changing over regularly occurring periods. This important discovery became the basis
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1 If a person is writing an academic discussion paper, quoting the book or author he is analyzing means he is using a primary source. On the other hand, if the writer is quoting or paraphrasing an opinion about the book or author from the source means he is using a secondary source. Depending on the type of essay, both primary and secondary sources are acceptable options of any writing. Applying the right type of sources is an important part of an essay to make your arguments more credible,
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doctors in conducting painful and sometimes fatal experiments on captured Jews without their consent. Rebecca Skloot uses the Aristotelian rhetorical technique of pathos in the contemporary biography The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks to demonstrate how, in the 1940s, the lack of medical ethics wronged countless families and individuals as they came to seek medical attention.
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Skloot's book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot illustrates Henrietta had to face racism on a daily basis. Skloot does so by showing racism in restricted facilities, segregated facilities and economics. To begin, Skloot first brings racism to our attention in restricted facilities. For example, “ Hopkins was one of the top hospitals in the country. It was built in 1889 as a charity hospital for the sick and poor (15). Due to racism existing Henrietta had to drive twenty five miles just
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In this paper we will discuss the situation of Henrietta Lacks. We will discuss her demographics, as well as provide a summary of the researcher's actions. Lastly, we will discuss what ethical principles in this research that were violated, and any diversity implications that were involved. The Demographics Henrietta Lacks Loretta Pleasant, also known Henrietta Lacks, Hennie and many other names was born August 1, 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia. Henrietta was a poor African American woman who worked as
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How did Henrietta’s status influence her treatment for cancer? Henrietta Lacks was a poor African American tobacco farmer from Clover, Virginia; she marries her cousin David “Day” Lacks and five beautiful children, the family moves to Baltimore, Maryland for a better life. Later Henrietta would be diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age 29-years-old; however she would pass away at 31-years-old. Henrietta’s treatment for cancer was affected due to her race. Blacks living
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large amount of controversy exists regarding patient compensation. The most famous case regarding this controversy concerns Henrietta Lacks, a patient whose cancerous cells, taken without consent, became a worldwide tool for scientific research, and led way for Biotech companies to earn billions while Henrietta and her family received nothing. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the author Rebecca Skloot investigates Henrietta’s case, and includes asides of other research patients’ experiences regarding
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It was just a very common practice at that time for doctors to get cells and tissues from patients without asking for permission. Even when the book about Henrietta was published, there was still not regulations enforce doctors to tell patients that they are going to use the cells to do research (p 315). In addition, there was a similar case happened to a white man named John Moore. Even though John Moore had
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Glaring differences in standards of living and quality of life are highlighted throughout the book. Describe these differences and discuss what role social and economic inequities played in the lives of Henrietta, her family, the researchers and even the author of the book. The standard of living is a measurement which is used to measure the quality of life of the people who live in a country. Economists use it to compare geographic areas, (e.g. the standard of living in the United States versus
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