She did not really get to experience how to be raised by both a mother and a father because her mother died after giving birth to one of her siblings when she was 4 years old after which her father moved the entire family to a town in Clover, Virginia.Īside from the fact that she got engaged and married, and had children with David “Day” Lacks, who was her cousin, there were not a lot of ethically-related events that took place during Henrietta Lacks’ childhood. Henrietta Lacks was not really her real name her real name was Loretta Pleasant she was born on the 1st of August 1920 somewhere in Roanoke, Virginia more importantly, she was an African American (Black American).
It would be a good idea to start by giving out a few vital information about Henrietta Lacks. She knew that something was to be extracted from her as indicated in the medical consent form but it was not clear whether she fully understood the consequences of the procedure and whether it violated any of his rights, something which the doctors failed to do as the medical consent form was evidently vaguely made. George extracted samples of cancerous cervical cells from Henrietta during her first few visits. It all started when the African American Henrietta Lacks visited John Hopkins medical institution to seek medical consult and was diagnosed with a malignant cervical cancer. The bottom line that makes this paper relevant to the principle that suggests that the good of the many outweighs the good of one is the fact that Henrietta Lacks was abused and was deprived of her rights as a patient, and even as a person, by a group of researchers and medical practitioners from John Hopkins medical institution reportedly led by Dr. How is Henrietta and her family involved?
This paper will revolve around this ethical dilemma and its applicability in Henrietta Lacks’ case, perhaps even in the case of her family. The selected topic to be discussed was the ethical validity of the principle that suggests that the good of many outweighs the good of one. The objective of this paper is to discuss a selected topic in the field of ethics.
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