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. They made henrietta sign a consent form, On page 31 it states “ THhen she signed a form with the words OPERATION PERMIT at the top of the page . It said: i herby give concent to the staff of the johns hopkins hospital to perform any operative procedure and under any anaesthetic either local or genaral that
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Moore thought that was odd , bur he didnt get suspicious until one day in 1983--- seven years afte his surgery --- when a nurse handed him a new consent form that said: I (do,do not) voluntarily grant to the university of california all right i, or my heirs may have any cell lineor any other potential product which might be developed from the blood and /or bone marrow obtained from me” he circled do and then when giving the same foem on his next follow up he curcled do not. Golde kept telling him to circe i do so moore decided to call al lwayer to figure things out. And that is when he found out about the cell line golde creatd called Mo. like henrietta more had no idea they were strtng a cell lne wth is cells although he did have the right to …show more content…
On page 130, it state, “ he also began injecting them ito every guneclogic surgery patient who came to sloan-ketterings memeorial hospital or its james ewing hospital.If he explained anything, he simly said he was testing the foe cancer.” Southman never told these patients that what he was really doing was injecting cancer cells into them. Southman never spoke a word about it to them . he thought it would just cause unecessary fear if he did tell the actua truth. Southman knew if he were to tell them they might not want to be in his study,which is their right . on page 130 it says” the deception was for his benifit- h was withholding information because patients might have refused to participate in his study if they’d known what he was injecting.” even though they had their rights to know what he was doing to them he ket his mouth shut for his own
Moore thought that was odd , bur he didnt get suspicious until one day in 1983--- seven years afte his surgery --- when a nurse handed him a new consent form that said: I (do,do not) voluntarily grant to the university of california all right i, or my heirs may have any cell lineor any other potential product which might be developed from the blood and /or bone marrow obtained from me” he circled do and then when giving the same foem on his next follow up he curcled do not. Golde kept telling him to circe i do so moore decided to call al lwayer to figure things out. And that is when he found out about the cell line golde creatd called Mo. like henrietta more had no idea they were strtng a cell lne wth is cells although he did have the right to …show more content…
On page 130, it state, “ he also began injecting them ito every guneclogic surgery patient who came to sloan-ketterings memeorial hospital or its james ewing hospital.If he explained anything, he simly said he was testing the foe cancer.” Southman never told these patients that what he was really doing was injecting cancer cells into them. Southman never spoke a word about it to them . he thought it would just cause unecessary fear if he did tell the actua truth. Southman knew if he were to tell them they might not want to be in his study,which is their right . on page 130 it says” the deception was for his benifit- h was withholding information because patients might have refused to participate in his study if they’d known what he was injecting.” even though they had their rights to know what he was doing to them he ket his mouth shut for his own