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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’, a New York Times Bestseller written by Rebecca Skloot. A book through which several meaningful topics are addressed and brought to light, one of the most significant being, whether or not people should be given legal ownership of, and/or control of their tissues. It is my belief that people should have ownership rights over their own body and what is derived from it, after all if an individual doesn’t have rights over their own body what rights do they have…

Moore was accused of trying to make a quick buck off the scientists who saved his life by removing his cancerous spleen, his plea for three billion dollars was denied having made it all the way to the supreme court. As a result of these cases having come from times in history without adequate legislation on tissue donation by which to comprehend the processes and limitations of tissue donation and property rights, Lacks and Moore both ended up in less than perfect standing. Lacks died poor, her…

SAAD ALDAKHEEL 10/19/2017 American literature How Anne Bradstreet confronts puritan view of gender Anna Bradstreet grow up in a health family. She was the daughter of Thomas Dudley who is the manager of country estate of the puritan Earl of Lincoln. Anna Bradstreet got married at the age of 16 to the young Simon Bradstreet who was working with Anna father. Anna Bradstreet never went to school but her father always taught her and gave her an education. It that time many woman didn’t have an…

Similar to other discoveries, evidence shows that discovery of the DNA structure was marred by controversies. Part of this controversy involved Rosalind Elsie Franklin, an X-ray crystallographer who was working on DNA with Maurice Wilkins at King’s College in London, England, between 1950 and 1953 (Sayre, 1975). She then moved to Birbeck College in London, where she worked on tobacco mosaic and poliovirus until her tragic death from cancer in 1958 at the age of thirty-seven. Following the…

The Tissue Issue When it comes to the topic of patient consent on the removal of body tissue, most of us readily agree that consent must be granted before anything is removed from the body. Where this argument usually ends, however, is on the question of whether or not the patient is aware the tissue removal is happening. Whereas some are convinced that at times making the patient unaware of the removal is adequate, others maintain that everything happening in a medical procedure should be…

Open Hearts: The Work of Daniel Hale Williams Germs don’t discriminate, why should hospitals? Daniel Hale Williams, quite possibly the most prominent black physician of his time, sought to answer this question. Best known for performing the first successful recorded heart surgery, Williams spent his life working for the advancement of African-Americans within the medical field. Williams was born in 1856 in the town of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. A chance encounter with a barbershop customer…

My role as a social worker would have been to help the family as much as I can get through the complications they faced. I would offer services like educating them about informed consent, provide crisis counseling, and I would try to get every member of the Lacks family the free health insurance they obviously deserve. Slavin who died 21years ago, has special cells like how Henrietta has special cells. Slavin cells produced extremely valuable proteins that were important for scientific research.…

Tamoxifen History: In 1966, the Imperial Chemical Industries Pharmaceuticals (ICI) assigned scientists to find a new emergency contraceptive. The drug they created was called ICI46, 474 and was not effective in its early stages. Despite this letdown, the ability was seen, by a member from the team of scientists, that it could be used to treat Breast Cancer. In the period up to clinical trial testing in 1970, ICI46, 474 was renamed Tamoxifen. The Christie Hospital in Manchester was the location…

Henrietta Lack’s cells have a long and rich history that span the study of genetics. She has been a part of thousands of research projects with the hope that her cells can make a difference. One project that has used her cells in its work is the Human Genome Project. This multinational, government driven idea wanted to discover the inner-workings of the human body and how humans differ from each other by sequencing the human genome. The genome is the “instruction manual” that is “written” in the…

deeper than just the story itself about the Henrietta Lacks herself and her family. One of the impressive and throughout question from your reflective paper is that what would happen differently if the HeLa cell line does not make any contribution to the scientific community or research instead HeLa cell line were made to become bioweapons? I agree with you that people may change attitude towards her as well as her offspring. However, patients in this case Henrietta Lacks cannot decide how their…