The article and the book both have some close similarities and some differences between one another. A similarity is the fact that the in the book not only did the Lacks family not get paid, but also John Moore lost a court case and never got paid either. Moore’s doctor was using the cells in a similar manner as Henrietta’s and Troug’s patient cells were used. In all three of these cases not a single patient was compensated for donating their cells. The difference between the article and the book is how in the book both Henrietta’s cells and Moore’s cells were being used secretly to conduct the research. In Tim Ulrich’s article the patient is fully aware that their cells would be used for research purposes because there are laws in place for
