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¶ … Belmont Report to the case of Henrietta Lacks and how they were violated
The three principle keys in the Belmont Report (1974) involving Henrietta's case were the respect for people, beneficence, and also justice. In respect of the people, two important elements are involved which include all people being treated as autonomous while the other persons with lesser independent autonomy be protected. With beneficence, the researchers should minimize profits while they avoid harming participants. They should also weigh the cost benefit for the participants. Lastly, the justice principle in research compels that benefits made from the research should be well contributed (Scannell, 2010).This means the participants of the research should get a fair share and research can only be conducted on those people who would benefit from it.
These ethics were violated because Ms. Lacks was not treated as an autonomous person hence they retrieved cells from her without her consent. This also...
According to Scannell (2010), her cells were developed to become the most useful tool in medicine meaning maximized profits, which did not benefit the poor family from Maryland 2010. Justice requires equal distribution of the benefits, which did not happen in her case. The research was also conducted on a person who was not benefiting from it and this was unethical.
Moral/ethical issues associated with harvesting Henrietta's cells
The HeLa cells as they were referred to were experimented at the concentration camps after the Second World War on prisoners of the Holocaust. This did not meet the code of ethics involving human subjects. This was the same time when in Tuskegee's, black Americans were not being treated for syphilis, but rather were being kept untreated as experimental objects. Ms. Lacks did not consent to the harvesting of her cells. There have been debates on patient's privacy which was not observed in this situation. There was…
References
Scannell, K. (2010). The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Journal of Legal Medicine, 31(4), 493-498
Tunc, T. (2011). Review of Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. American Journal Of Bioethics, 11(3), 40-41
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Henrietta Lacks born August 1, 1920, was an African-American female tobacco farmer who resided in Dundalk, Maryland. She was wife to her first cousin and mother of five children. At the age of 31, Lacks died from cervical cancer. Before she died, a doctor took a sample of her cervical cells. These cells, named HeLa cells, became the immortal cell line that provided a Polio vaccine, aided in cloning, among