ReadUP 2018: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Medical Ethics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"HeLa Cells" by Euan is licensed under Creative Commons 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

To honor the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks, this video highlights her impact on biomedical research and the efforts of Johns Hopkins Medicine to pay homage to her legacy. Learn more here.

 From the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and Henrietta Lacks' HeLa cells to the horrifying experiments performed at Nazi concentration camps, many strides have been made from Institutional Review Boards (or IRBs) to the Nuremberg Code to guarantee voluntariness, informed consent, and beneficence in modern statistical gathering. But as we'll discuss, with the complexities of research in the digital age many new ethical questions arise.

Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, and Ethical Data Collection. Crash Course Statistics, 2018.