IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Institutional Review Board, George Otto Gey, Henrietta Lacks

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Geological Sciences
• Course: IUF 1000
• Professor: Stephanie Capaldo

Document Summary

Basic human values, rights to life and health. Philosophical study of ethical issues related to practice of science and medicine. Autonomy patient should determine course of action that best aligns with their conception of good, healthy. The basic human right to health, the basic human right to consent. Historically, bioethics have been governed by codes and laws. Human experimentation, human subjects, human dignity, pain, fear. The consent issue" is overshadowed by a public responsibility to science since everyone benefits. Everybody can accept the risks of having their tissue scraps used for research. From a family of sharecroppers, 6th grade education, married young, began having children at: had abdominal pain in the late 40"s. January of 1951, henrietta goes into johns hopkins. Cells were collected and sent to george gey. When henrietta lacks returned for care for her cervical cancer, she signs the consent form: i hereby give consent to the staff of the.