The article The End of the Henrietta Lacks Sage? From the Smithsonian magazine was written by Rachel Nuwer in 2013. The Smithsonian is a magazine that provides an outlook on the major topics in history, science art, popular culture and innovation all in one. This certain article dealing with science is well written. Authors should use critical thinking when writing magazine articles, but some do not.
Gey’s assistant saw Henrietta’s toenail polish she realized that she once was a lively woman who loved to paint her toes like other women. I think doctors and scientist see them as people but also as bodies that can be used for their own research and own benefit. Another example of this was when they took Henrietta’s cells without permission for their own benefit. Doctors and scientist shouldn’t do this because their job is to help sick people and not use their body as some sort of project. The Lacks cousin thought that the sudden storm was Henrietta telling them something.
Douglas Mawson, Henrietta Lacks, and Phineas Gage: what do all of these people have in common? They have all suffered from adversity throughout their life, but unlike us these three had to face the adversity of excruciating pain and even death. In the article “Into the Unknown” Douglas Mawson had to travel across the arctic wasteland known as antarctica, but Mawson did not know it would be this difficult. Then In the article “Immortal cells, Enduring issues” Henrietta Lacks got sick and eventually died, but not before doctors found out Lacks 's immortal cells would help scientists make cures for many forms of diseases. Finally in the video “The Man with the Hole in His Brain” Phineas Gage had a iron rod blasted through his head and survived.
In today’s world people are endowed to full rights when it comes to their medical wellbeing. When seeking medical care from physicians and professionals we expect a full explanation of our health and possible treatment plans. It is even law that we provide informed consent before proceeding with care. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot is a thought provoking novel that takes a close and personal look at the story of Henrietta Lacks and her family. She is an African American woman whose cells were used for the advancement of medicine, all without her knowing.
First of all, Henrietta was never told that many scientists were undergoing experiments on her because of her unusual cells, this was kept a secret to prevent her from ever refusing the experiments. While going through a cancer procedure a doctor Telinde who was working on her never mentioned anything about getting samples, “no one had told Henrietta that Telinde was
For example, in cases of violations of ethical guidelines, doctors were rarely caught because the rules were not strongly enforced. Skloot comments, “Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. Many scientists believed that since patients were treated for free in the public wards, it was fair to use them as research subjects as a form of payment”. White doctors were often not opposed to poor treatment of the minorities because they believe the research done would be beneficial to the scientific advancement around the world. Even if patients would take corrupt doctors to court, the judge usually ruled in favor of the medical professional.
It took the Author Rebecca Skloot approximately 10 years to reveal the truth behind the HeLa cells, stolen by doctors and Scientists from a woman, Henrietta Lacks, in 1951. Skloot exposes how Doctors and scientist took advantage of Henrietta Lacks and her cells known as HeLa cells. Even after Henrietta death the neither doctors nor scientists told anyone about Henrietta cells, they were experimented, sold, and bought by many others. African0 Americans were kept in the dark, in “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” Skloot managed to explain the unethical situations towards the African Americans.
DOCTORS CAUSING HARM: HISTORY OF MEDICAL MURDERERS, FROM SWEENEY TODD TO HAROLD SHIPMAN INTRODUCTION “The killing fields of Harold Shipman1,” “Jane Toppan, an extraordinary case of moral insanity2,” are 2 of several chilling headlines of articles in newspapers between the 19th – 21st century. Many doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, who patients and the public trust with their lives, have been charged with multiple murders. Many/all of these medical professionals would have pledged to cure and save lives, but have however engaged in gruesome murder.
This patient was not treated with the ethical respectany patient should receive when seeking help/treatment. It is very alarming that a physician whose job is to take care of other humans would disregard giving a proper
In the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta had a normal life before she found that she had cancer and everything change. Henrietta was born on August 1, 1920. When she was four years old her mom died and her father took the family back to his hometown of Clover. His father took them back to Clover so he could send his ten children to different relatives to live with them. Henrietta went to live with his grandfather and her cousin David or most people call him Day.
Elie Wiesel writes, “We must not treat anyone as an abstraction.” Rebecca Skloot wrote The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman that grew up on a tobacco farm. Henrietta in her teen years was attracted to a boy named Day her cousin. Day and Henrietta got married and had family.
Usually in life, it is best for anyone to take a step back to the past and look at the big picture. No one could flatter himself that he is immune to the changes around him. Moreover, with all the demands that life can put on a person, sometimes it is easy to lose the essence of “me”. By losing this essence, the person could develop either a better version or a worse version of himself. Looking back at the beginning of this year (freshman year), I have been just that young soul eager to meet life’s challenges especially culture changing challenges.
In the case of Henrietta Lacks and her family, the mistreatment of doctors and lack of informed consent defined nearly 60 years of the family’s history. Henrietta Lacks and her children had little to no information about serious medical procedures and the use of Henrietta’s cells in research. Henrietta’s cells launched a multibillion-dollar industry without her consent and doctors even took advantage of her children’s lack of education to continue their research without questions: “[Doctor] did not explain why he was having someone draw blood from Deborah… he wrote a phone number and told her to use it for making more appointments to give more blood” (188). Deborah did not have the knowledge to understand the demands or requests the doctors made of her, and the doctors did not inform her explicitly.
Moreover, doctors' altruism towards their patients and others has been less well examined and is understood, as opposed to express, in explanations about medicinal expert qualities and dispositions. Furthermore, the altruistic conduct by doctors may incorporate, for instance, keeping on working or giving casual medicinal exhortation outside contracted hours, giving free treatment to poor patients in charge for service health care frameworks, and a general eagerness to go the additional mile in expert working. There is much proof that numerous specialists work beyond their contracted hours, yet there is likewise a growing feeling that selflessness in medicine (Eby & Kelley,
It is very clear to most that Grey ’s Anatomy is an inaccurate depiction of medicine and the healthcare industry. Though heavily dramatized and ‘doctored’, there have been moments of learning, especially with this ethical issue.
