5.2 Biomedical ethics & Henrietta Lacks
2021 marked the centenary of the birth of Henrietta Lacks whose HeLa cells have arguably helped save millions of lives. But she died in 1951 unaware of any of this. Her case is just one story where correct ethical procedures were ignored in the name of research and progress. Here we explore some examples that impacted Black American communities in particular in the not too distant past and how this contributes to our...