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Henrietta Lacks Ethical debates and dilemmas are common in healthcare today. The Henrietta Lacks story was no exception. Her cells were taken without her knowledge and used to form a HeLa cell line, which has been used extensively in medical research (Arts & Entertainment, {A & E}, 2017). The purpose of this paper is to inform others about the Henrietta Lacks story and how ethical issues are relevant to this case.…
For decades, researchers have been making large strides in medical science, causing the cost of medical research and care to rise drastically. Many medical institutions remain dedicated to nonprofit studies with the goal of benefiting the greater community, but a large portion of them choose to commercialize in order to turn a profit, causing many to debate whether or not it is ethical to put a price on a human life. One contributor to the argument is Rebecca Skloot, whose book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, illustrates the life of Henrietta Lacks and how her cells were taken without permission, grown in culture, and bought and sold for millions of dollars, all while her family lived in poverty. Stories like the Lackses’ shed light…
Joanna MacKay says in her essay, Organ Sales Will Save Lives, that “Lives should not be wasted; they should be saved.” Many people probably never think about donating organs, other than filling out the paper work for their drivers’ license.…
Molly O’Brien Expository Writing Assignment #2 The Debate of Organ sales In MIT student Joanna Mackay’s article “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” she focuses on why organ sales should be made legal. She researches information about how people are dying due to minimum organs, third world donors, moral issues and the advantage to government regulation to argue her point that organ sales should be available if one desires. Joanna's presents how people are dying and suffering from the lack of organ sales.…
In the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ Skloot develops variety’s of central ideas throughout the text. One of the central ideas is patients rights. She anylisis this central idea by demostrating how the patients have their rights, yet its like they didnt have any. First off with HEnrietta, Henrietta was a african american patient at hopkins hospitl. Which was the only option she had since segregation was a thing back then.…
Healthcare professionals are required to take an oath that states “do no harm.” This oath is the epitome of the principle of nonmaleficince. Healthcare professionals did not want to cause avoidable damage to Cowart; therefore, they used this principle to support their reasoning. In this particular incident, this oath was manipulated also into supporting the principle of paternalism, which justified the constant unwanted treatments given to Cowart. According to Gerald Dworkin’s piece, “… In ‘pure’ paternalism, the class of persons whose freedom is restricted is identical with the class of persons whose benefit is intended to be promoted by such restrictions” (citation).…
Rebecca Skloot’s book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” has been a life-changing experience for my career as a Public Health student. This book reveals a new area of medical history in which I had limited knowledge of. For instance, my knowledge of African Americans contribution to science was slight until I heard about the HeLa Cells. One important issue that is addressed in the book is Henrietta Lack’s family and their connection with the medical world.…
Although the Eighth Amendment(VIII) to the United States Constitution being the Bill of Right that prohibits unusual punishments and cruel, the debate whether death penalty constitute cruel and unusual punishment remains unsolved puzzle in the United States or in some States. As some states have mandatory death penalties in certain cases, the Supreme Court found these laws unconstitutional (Woodson v. North Carolina 1976) and they actually violates the Eighth Amendment (Furman v. Georgia 1972). However, using these examples I am not saying that Charles Laverne Singleton should have been freed because he killed someone.…
“There Is No “Right” to Healthcare,” by John David Lewis Thesis: Healthcare is not suitably a guaranteed right for persons because it would infringe on the rights of doctors, is paradoxical, and it goes against the freedoms defined by the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Premise 1: The basis of all rights that are laid out in in the US Constitution are to protect the individual, not the wishes of the society or of other individuals. Requiring a doctor to perform care that other’s wish for would infringe on his or her rights to pursue the career envisioned. Premise 2: It is not right to force one person to act in helping another person at their own expense, even if the other person needs the help to survive.…
Physician-Assisted Death In The U.S. Physician-Assisted Death, or Death With Dignity in the United States is one among the many controversial topics being brought up and questioned in politics today. Is it ethical? Is it a bad reflection on the medical side?…
Second reason to change the method of execution in the United States is finances. Cases without the death penalty cost approximately $740,000, while cases with the death penalty cost over than $1.2 million- it is almost $500,000 difference. To maintain a death row prisoner to live in prison costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population. At this moment, in 2016 there are 714 inmates on California 's death row (“Costs of the Death Penalty”). Also the death penalty is also growing more expensive with each passing year.…
Activity 4.3.1 Who Should Receive the Organ? Introduction In 1984, the federal government passed the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) which established the framework for a national system of organ transplantation. Under NOTA, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) are responsible for formulating organ allocation policies and is administered by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Deciding who receives donated organs is not always easy and clear-cut.…
Abstract Law is formed for a motive and it regulates in many areas like medicine, before practicing any medical procedure or conducting a form of administrative position each medical specialist or non-medical specialist operative must comprehend a difference between ethical or unethical. Ethical and Unethical plays a significant role in our humanity every way it is whether up to how you want to approach it. According to “The case of Jeanette M. And the phone call” altered from the beginning of chapter 1 of “Medical Law and Ethics” inscribed by Bonnie Fremgen, it exemplifies how a medical receptionist and the doctor action resulted in death of Jeanette M. This case falls into so many categories of violations and code of ethics such as being…
In the book and movie Flowers for Algernon, Charlie, a mentally handicapped man, has a surgery to make him smarter, but later finds that it is temporary. When Charlie begins to get smarter, he starts to get rejected by his friends at the factory. All he wanted was to fit in, but when he became smart, he was treated as though he was an alien. Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss begin to argue and everything isn’t what Charlie thought it would be. Then he slowly begins to go back to who he was before.…
Did the End Justify the Means? An ethical dilemma is a situation where one has to make a decision between two moral options; both of these options would end up with a negative result. In the movie called, “John Q”, John Q Archibald has a son who has a fatal cardiac condition and needs surgery as soon as possible. However, the parents do not have nearly as much as they need to even pay the deposit.…