He said that no one told him anything about keeping her cells alive the doctors only said that, by performing the autopsy, they might be able to save Day’s children and grandchildren from cancer.ĭisregarding the Family of Henrietta Lacks’ Informed Consent
After an autopsy, during which more samples were taken from Henrietta’s body without the family of Henrietta Lacks’ consent, Henrietta was buried in Clover in an unmarked grave.ĭay later told the story of the day he went to Hopkins and signed off on Henrietta’s autopsy. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, ethics questions continue after her death. (It was later discovered to cause cancer itself.) Before her surgeon applied the radium to her cervix, however, he took a small sample of both healthy tissue and cancerous tissue and sent it off to the Geys’ lab. When she returned to the hospital after receiving her diagnosis-rather than tell Day or her family that she’d been diagnosed with a malignant tumor, she simply told them the doctors needed to evaluate her and give her some medicine-she signed a consent form to be operated on, was subjected to a battery of tests, and eventually treated with radium, the gold standard for cancer treatment at the time. In making a research subject of Henrietta Lacks, ethics were questionable. Henrietta, unbeknownst to her, became one of TeLinde’s and the Geys’ subjects. Excising Cells From Henrietta Lacks: Ethics Violation?
Read about consent in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, ethics questions raised, and current informed consent requirements. Henrietta Lacks’ informed consent was not considered in using her tissue for HeLa. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, ethics are an important discussion. What ethics issues were raised by The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? Did researchers have Henrietta Lacks’ consent to use her tissue? How have standards changed?
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