Henrietta Lacks

Ethics Ignored for Henrietta Lacks In the book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Henrietta was the victim of abuse from the health care delivery system. Her story is remarkable, but as a social worker reading her story there were many read flags involving unethical care to the client. The most disturbing part of the book was reading the consent provided on page 31 of chapter three. When Henrietta presented to John Hopkins Hospital to be treated for her cervical cancer she was given this…

Suspense in The Evening and the Morning and the Night “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” is a short story by Octavia Butler. This is a short story about a girl named Lynn Mortimer who was born with a disease called Duryea-Gode disease (DGD). DGD is a genetic disease that causes adults to become self-destructive.It is caused by a drug called Hedeonco, which cures certain types of cancer. If an adult has DGD and reproduces, their child will automatically have the disease. When adults…

Carol W.Greider is a biologist who discovered something very important. When she completed her Ph.D. from the university of Cal Berkeley She then went of into researching of the cell. She then saw a thing called a telomerase that can cause cancer if destroyed. She was researching in Long Island, New York when she discovered a protein that stops telomerase from disintegrating. She then got the nobel peace prize for discovering that in the year 2009. Carol Greider was born in San Diego she then…

either of them touched one of those Lacks children again, she’d kill them herself” (Skloot, 115). This was the first time the Lacks children were truly stood up for, at least since their mother passed. For too many years, Deborah, Sonny, and Joe were harassed, abused and neglected. They were voiceless and they had no one to look up to. Until Bobette came into their lives, and with open arms she gave them a second chance. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks readers are exposed to…

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…

Beth, a stage 0 breast cancer survivor, says that chemo treatment was the worse thing that she has ever gone through. Having surgery or even doing radiation was nothing compared to the sickness that she had with chemo. Luckily, chemo isn’t the only solution. Now, there are treatments that are that are successful and keep the patient healthier. These treatments are called homeopathic or alternative treatments. Homeopathic cancer treatments are better than mainstream treatments because they are…

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…

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…

Twenty-five years ago, two women, brilliant and brave women, gave a landmark speech on the AIDS epidemic at the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York City. Elizabeth Glaser, who was one of the two women speakers had contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion, passed it on to her children, and would shortly lose her life to it in 1994 (Lucas, S. & Medhurst, M., 2009). Elizabeth, who during her speech, referred to herself as the “strange spokesperson” for such a group – was a well-to-do…

Theranos was founded by Elizabeth Holmes, Stanford dropout turn creator of a multi-billion dollar enterprise, while the company goes against the ethical stance of Utilitarianism it’s actions can be justified with Kant’s moral position. Theranos was founded as a medical service that would be able to diagnose a patient with a variety of diseases with a simple prick of a finger. Holmes first came up with this idea while attending Stanford University, this idea was quickly shut down by every…