Lacks Family Ethics Case Study

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In 1973, Bobbette met a man who worked at the National Cancer Institute when he learned that she was part of the Lacks family she worried that doctors from the institute would come after the rest of family. Investigators treated the Lacks family with no ethically/principles of morality because researchers were trying to map human genome to untangle the HeLa contamination problem. They concluded that the best way was to get blood from Henrietta's living relatives was to accurately identify HeLa in cultures by mapping her genes. Victor McKusick volunteered his barely English-speaking fellow, Susan Hsu to get blood from the Lacks family. Hsu called Day and asked to draw blood for a cancer test to see if the children had cancer. I do belive that

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