Henrietta Lacks Unethical

How would you feel if something was taken from your body without your consent or if an experiment was performed on you without your consent? Many times while people are in the operating room under anesthesia doctors take things from them, calls, blood samples, etc. and most of the time they never find out until it’s too late. People are even experimented on without giving permission, experiments that are so gruesome you can’t even imagine. Taking things or performing experiments on humans without their consent is unethical and just plain wrong, sadly enough that is happens too often. Would you want something like this being done to you? In August of 1942, in the middle of WWII, so called “freezing experiments” were conducted on prisoners at Dachau concentration camp. Things like placing prisoners in baths of ice for a much as three …show more content…
However, this unethical situation happens far too often in our society. The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a story of a women named Henrietta Lacks that had cancer and without her knowledge much less her consent her cells taken and continued grow outside of her body, which helped make and discover many different wonderful things in the medical field and the world of science. (Skloot) Much like Henrietta, Holocaust victims were not informed of the experiments that were being on them, and Henrietta nor were her family informed that her cells were being taking and used for advances in the medical field or the world of science. If advancing in these fields mean so much to the doctors why don’t they perform these horrible experiments on themselves? They feel as though that are too valuable to loose, so it’s better to use someone else, someone who has a family and children. This is wrong and must come to an end. Don’t kill innocent people to make yourself look better because you came up with a cure of a