Discuss the moral, ethical, and emotional aspects involved in the isolation and continuous use of HeLa cells.
A best-selling book by Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, chronicles a unique 1951 case in which a woman’s cervical cancer cells were harvested and grown, although without her knowledge. The patient, Henrietta Lacks, died of cancer the same year, but her cancer cells are still alive in labs worldwide, where they are […]