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How Is Henrietta Lacks Unethical

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Born in 1920 Henrietta Lacks, has helped advance the world of medicine in ways that she wouldn't think were possible. In her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot takes us on a powerful journey about an African American women whose cells--were taken without her consent in 1951. This book tackles many issues that existed during this time, for example, racism and many ethical issues. The experiment conducted by the surgeon J. Marion Sims addresses many of the same matters that are presented in the novel written by Skloot. Both of these medical experiments performed on African American women advanced the world of medicine, but they were also seen as unethical and morally incorrect by their peers. Henrietta’s immortal life was

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