Add to ORKGHenrietta Lacks achieved fame and immortality in the world of science. In 1951, Johns Hopkins Hospital harvested the tissue of Ms. Lacks, a 31-year-old African American woman diagnosed with cervical cancer to mass produce HeLa cells. \u27 The money derived from her cell line produced wonders and scientific breakthroughs in technology, biology and medicine which far exceeds that reflected in the published literature, because it is the reference cell in so many research laboratories.” In this essay, I place Ms. Lacks\u27 parts (tissue cells) back into her body to raise a claim of unjust enrichment. I discuss the ongoing debate as to whether the ownership of cells is a legally protected interest. I explore historical facts and apply them to...
This presentation will cover who Henrietta Lacks was and how her cells were obtained and Hela by Joh...
[Excerpt] “At first blush, donating body parts in the name of science appears to be a beautiful solu...
Humans in the era of 21st century have witnessed development at its epitome, coupled with obvious pr...
Henrietta Lacks achieved fame and immortality in the world of science. In 1951, Johns Hopkins Hospit...
Importantly, though this Note employs Henrietta Lacks as the illustrative, paradigmatic case for the...
In 1951, a scientist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, created the first immortal hu...
Pratt’s research inquiry essay focuses on the medical ethics issues involved in the case of Henriett...
SummaryA book about Henrietta Lacks, source of the eponymous cells, is top of the list for the prest...
Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in 1951 at 31, but a cell line from her tissues is still ali...
As the body becomes the stuff of which products are made, the issue of its ownership becomes paramou...
Respected science writer Rebecca Skloot unearths the story of the African American woman from Baltim...
When she died in 1951, Henrietta Lacks was a thirty-one-year-old Black descendent of slaves living w...
As research using human biological materials has rapidly developed, so too has the debate over the o...
One of the most famous examples of cell lines surviving long after a person has died comes from a tu...
This article examines the regulatory system surrounding the post-mortem human tissue industry. The a...
This presentation will cover who Henrietta Lacks was and how her cells were obtained and Hela by Joh...
[Excerpt] “At first blush, donating body parts in the name of science appears to be a beautiful solu...
Humans in the era of 21st century have witnessed development at its epitome, coupled with obvious pr...
Henrietta Lacks achieved fame and immortality in the world of science. In 1951, Johns Hopkins Hospit...
Importantly, though this Note employs Henrietta Lacks as the illustrative, paradigmatic case for the...
In 1951, a scientist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, created the first immortal hu...
Pratt’s research inquiry essay focuses on the medical ethics issues involved in the case of Henriett...
SummaryA book about Henrietta Lacks, source of the eponymous cells, is top of the list for the prest...
Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in 1951 at 31, but a cell line from her tissues is still ali...
As the body becomes the stuff of which products are made, the issue of its ownership becomes paramou...
Respected science writer Rebecca Skloot unearths the story of the African American woman from Baltim...
When she died in 1951, Henrietta Lacks was a thirty-one-year-old Black descendent of slaves living w...
As research using human biological materials has rapidly developed, so too has the debate over the o...
One of the most famous examples of cell lines surviving long after a person has died comes from a tu...
This article examines the regulatory system surrounding the post-mortem human tissue industry. The a...
This presentation will cover who Henrietta Lacks was and how her cells were obtained and Hela by Joh...
[Excerpt] “At first blush, donating body parts in the name of science appears to be a beautiful solu...
Humans in the era of 21st century have witnessed development at its epitome, coupled with obvious pr...