Henrietta Lacks was the woman with the immortal cancer cell line, used for research for decades without her knowledge and consent or her family’s knowledge and consent (she died soon after the cells were harvested). She was also black, which complicates things significantly.
Henrietta Lacks had her mutated cells collected without consent, these cells have been kept alive and duplicated for decades after her death. I sure as hell wouldn't consent to what happened to her.
I don't get this stuff about Henrietta Lacks' consent. It's a cellular line. A biopsy of a cancer. I understand consent should be given, but there's nothing personal or sentient in a strain of cancerous cells. This to me sounds just like pure, pointless whining. I can only guess she'd be happy to have been important for science and research on what killed her.
Consent to what? Be photographed?
I think the analogy is perfect; she consented to be photographed, but was powerless over the consequences.
Edit: ah sorry, got them confused.
Henrietta Lacks was the woman with the immortal cancer cell line, used for research for decades without her knowledge and consent or her family’s knowledge and consent (she died soon after the cells were harvested). She was also black, which complicates things significantly.
Henrietta Lacks and Lena Forsén are/were different people.
Henrietta Lacks had her mutated cells collected without consent, these cells have been kept alive and duplicated for decades after her death. I sure as hell wouldn't consent to what happened to her.
I don't get this stuff about Henrietta Lacks' consent. It's a cellular line. A biopsy of a cancer. I understand consent should be given, but there's nothing personal or sentient in a strain of cancerous cells. This to me sounds just like pure, pointless whining. I can only guess she'd be happy to have been important for science and research on what killed her.
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