Category: Bioethics

Basic Ethics and Bioethics Principles in Health Care Summary The field of health care ethics addresses the wide variety of moral decision-making situations that can arise in medical practice. The areas of moral concern can include the clinical relationship between medical professionals and the patient, human subject research, the harvesting and transplantation of human organs,…

The Discovery of HeLa Cells and The Principle of Informed Consent: Analysis of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Human biospecimens have been imperative in scientific and medical advances. Their continued widespread availability for research will be vital to realizing the goals of medicinal accuracy. Once tissue is removed from patients, they were used for…

Reader’s Reflection on the Book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks In the beginning of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, we are introduced to Henrietta Lacks, born as Loretta Pleasant. She is a poor African American woman with little education. The author informs us that she grew up on a farm and her ancestors…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rhetorical Analysis Introduction to the Significance of HeLa Cells and Henrietta Lacks In 1951 the first immortal cell was found, a cell that would change science and medicine forever, but no one knew where it came from. 59 years later a book was published, The Immortal Life of Henrietta…

Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks published in 2010 relates to a nonfiction book by American writer Rebecca Skloot. It was given an award in the year 2011 by the National Academics Communication. It was bestowed for the best creative work that assisted the public in the…

Controversy Between Science and Religion in Rebecca Skloot’s ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ Religion and science are two mutually incompatible subjects with unattackable opinions. The conflict between the two ideas have been debated for many years and continues on today. These two subjects are expansive on their ideas where faith and fact come into…

Reaction to Rebecca Skloot’s Novel ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ My first reaction to this book was outrage. What an extremely disgraceful way for medical professionals to treat a human being. Henriettas story raises questions about ethics, race, and informed consent. John Hopkins University Hospital should be ashamed of themselves! There is an element…

The Peculiarities of Biomedical Ethics In the Vaughns 3rd Ed new text concerning bioethics in bio-medical issues, principalities and cases. The texts does exploration to matters pertaining philosophy, medicine issues, social and even legal main effective bioethical issues. It does introduction to the ethical matters in the medical operations. It extents to bringing effect to…

Controversy Between Science and Religion in Rebecca Skloot’s ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ Religion and science are two mutually incompatible subjects with unattackable opinions. The conflict between the two ideas have been debated for many years and continues on today. These two subjects are expansive on their ideas where faith and fact come into…

Reaction to Rebecca Skloot’s Novel ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ My first reaction to this book was outrage. What an extremely disgraceful way for medical professionals to treat a human being. Henriettas story raises questions about ethics, race, and informed consent. John Hopkins University Hospital should be ashamed of themselves! There is an element…