Question

Healthcare Ethics

What are the central components to the Nuremberg Code and the Helsinki Declaration? Why have Henrietta Lacks’ story/case and the Tuskegee Studies ethical become such profound ethical concerns?

Answer 1

THE NUREMBERG CODE: human experimentation is okay if the participant consents to it and gets proper care and can leave when they want .

DECLARATION OF HELSINKI: expands on the NC to have an independent person supervise and review BELMONT REPORT.

Three basic principles or components are :-

1. respect for persons

2. beneficence (do not harm)

3. Justice (benefits and cost)

# The tuskegee syphilis experiment was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the US public health service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural african american men who thought they were receiving free health care from the US government. Racist justification. keeping them without consent. not giving proper medical care that's why Tuskegee study ethical become such profound ethical concerns .

# Henrietta Lacks

-an African-American woman who was born in 1920 and died in 1951 from cervical cancer

-without her knowledge, the cells from her cancerous tumor were cultured to create the first known human immortal cell line for medical research

# Ethical concerns that arise from Henrietta Lacks

-Is it legal to sell your body tissues? Is this ethical?

-Is it legal to sell organs? Is this ethical?

-If you go to the dermatologist and he or she removes a mole, what do you think is done with that tissue sample?

-Do you still own your tissue once it has been removed? Is this ethical?