Essay On Henrietta Lacks Unethical Research

The countless amounts of unethical scientific researches that were conducted by well respected scientists cannot be numbered. The amount of victims of unethical scientific research also cannot be numbered, but just another aspect that exposes the discrepancies of many health care professionals who took advantage of the respect, the trust and, the faith those patients instilled. Henrietta Lacks a woman of prestige, a woman of significant importance, and a woman of color was violated by health care professionals. Through the lens of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” unethical scientific research is what could be derived from the violation of Henrietta and her cells for if proper scientific guidelines were in place the spread of the HeLa cells would have been minimized. Additionally, The WillowBrook Study case of 1956 involved the exploitation and abuse that health care providers imposed on young children who were diagnosed with mental retardation. Recently an unethical scientific research …show more content…
The health care providers utilized the illegally obtained cells from Henrietta who was poke and prodded before and after her death. In the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” author Rebecca Skloot uncovers “She signed a form with the words of operation permit at the top of the page” a statement found in the book showing that Henrietta signed to the consent of the operation permit, but that form did not include the ability of any physician to extract anything from Henrietta’s body. Through the lens of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” unethical scientific research is what could be derived from the violation of Henrietta and her cells for if proper scientific guidelines were in place the spread of the HeLa cells would have been