Ethical Issues In Honeybee Democracy And The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

To analyze the ethical components of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) use of a false of vaccination program to obtain information, one can used the four levels of moral discourse outlined in Robert M. Veatch’s The Basics of Bioethics. Looking at the four levels of moral discourse allows us to consider possibilities through which the hoax CIA vaccination program could be considered ethical or unethical. Below I outline a relativist belief that when working through the various levels of moral discourse, one can justify the CIA’s actions as ethical depending on the source of ethics used; using principles of bioethics, we see that the CIA’s actions were unethical, but when considering other principles or virtues, particularly those that

In Mary Shelley’s 19th century novel, Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is noble in his effort to help mankind. His scientific Prometheanism is initially meant as a good thing, but has serious negative consequences. Victor wants to bring life back to dead matter so humans, in theory, would not have to die. Similarly, in today’s world, scientists and doctors continually and nobly pursue advancement in the medical world to generate new treatments for sick patients. For example, the medical community today is pursuing embryonic stem cell research to discover cures for diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes.

Stanley Milgram begins his article, “The Perils of Obedience,” with an exhaustive description of his experiment and outcome he expects. He follows this with an exception to his preliminary observations by providing conversation between the subject and the experimenter. Milgram also explains peculiar reactions to the experiment, including, “His [Braverman’s] very refined and authoritative manner of speaking is increasingly broken up by wheezing laughter.” Next, Milgram outlines variations to his experiment performed and closes with a reference to Nazi treatment of Jews. With similar format, Phillip Zimbardo opens his article, “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” with an overview of his experiment, including construction of the mock prison.

Animal rights activist, Jane Goodall, in her persuasive essay, “I Acknowledge Mine” tells about how terrible chimpanzees are treated in a biomedical research laboratory. Goodall’s purpose is to try to encourage change in the laboratory because she thinks that they shouldn’t be tested on just like humans aren’t being tested on. She adopts a somber tone in order to appeal to the audiences’ ethical or moral values regarding animal treatment. Goodall effectively uses all three rhetorical strategies-- ethos, logos, and pathos-- to educate the audience regarding the harsh reality of animal testing around the world and to convince the audience that this cruel testing should be stopped.

Ethical constraints fear limits our ability to acquire new knowledge when the subject could be offensive or cause harm to living things. The great American philosopher, Joel Feinberg, determined that “his examination of rights should include a careful discussion of the extent to which offense can ever be morally/ethically justified and if there are circumstances in which it should be legally prohibited”. However, some knowledge cannot be acquired without questioning and experiments. Occasionally, those two methods touch sensitive topic or require some sacrifice to be processed. In order to idealize our living society, nobody should feel scared or threatened to express his or her thoughts and ideas.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the story of Henrietta, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of her daughter, Deborah Lacks, aided by journalist Rebecca Skloot. Deborah wanted to learn about her mother, and to understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, changing countless lives and the face of medicine forever. It is a story of medical arrogance and triumph, race, poverty and deep friendship between the unlikeliest people. There had been many books published about Henrietta’s cells, but nothing about Henrietta’s personality, experiences, feeling, life style etc.

During World War II, Hitler and his Nazis ruled Germany declaring Jews and various other races inferior. Afterwards, all Jews in Germany were rounded up and sent to different concentration camps all throughout Germany. Most people sent to the camps were gassed; however, some were experimented on for the Nazi’s own gain. There were terrible, traumatizing experiments that took place on these camps, horrible experiences for all victims. The gruesome experiments that took place during the Holocaust are abhorrent because the experiments they performed, the procedure of the tests, and the ethical conflicts that these despicable tests left behind.

Imagine being thrown, naked, into a tub of 35 degree water, developing hypothermia, and then being tossed into another tub, this time, into boiling water. Imagine being infected with a disease such as tuberculosis, and then being forced to work in the fields as a slave. Imagine being studied throughout the longevity of your disease and suffering by those who could care less about your well being and comfort. The ethics of historical human medical experiments, such as these, have been in question for a long while, and rightly so. We as humans have put our own race through extremely cruel and terrible things, and in no way is it ethical or correct to say that the hypothermia experiments of the Holocaust or the electroconvulsive therapy experiments on

Her doctor collected cancerous cells and healthy cells from her cervix and gave them to the cancer researcher, George Otto Gey, who was trying to keep cells alive for more than a couple days. Henrietta endured intense radium treatments, but she still died at the age of 31, leaving her husband and five children behind. An amazing discovery was made Henrietta’s cell were immortal. Racism is prevalent in this book through the limited availability of healthcare, unethical behaviors of the doctors, and how racism affected her family. During this time, there was an extensive lack of medical care for colored people.

However, I’m sure we all lost a beloved one to cancer at one point of our lives, and we wished that there were a way to help them. But do you really think animal testing is the solution? Is killing hundreds of animals for selfish reasons fair to nature? There is no doubt that I, too, want a healthy life to live, but there

Introduction Ethics are appropriate in all the fields of human activity. Ethics are important for us while dealing with others, environment and animals. It is vital for us to have an official statement or a national reference point for ethical considerations regarding human research, treatment of humans and healthcare for humans (NHMRC Act, 2007). The current essay focuses on various ethical and legal standards of healthcare treatment that has to be provided to the humans and the importance of such activity. The ethical principles not only have impact on the research subjects but, also will influence the people affected by the research outcomes.

Even though this moral code has been installed in the medical community for decades, it has not always been followed and obeyed. Edward Jenner, considered as one of the greatest scientists in the world at his time, utilized human experimentation in order to develop his world famous

However, that line of thinking quickly clashes with the fact that with the help of exactly such testing, with the sacrifice of those animal lives, human lives are saved in return. Who are we to object to the expedition of finding a cure for someone’s son’s or daughter’s illness on the basis that it would be cruel toward some animals, which fact is not up for debate, it is indeed downright monstrous. And if one person had the conviction to deny themselves the cure, what gives them the right to forbid others from using it. In the end the simplest question presents itself, whether testing experimental drugs and treatments on humans is more sane and logical rather than animal testing, and then there is a line which might as well cease progress. A line which demands not to be crossed, the line that demands human lives be handled with caution and care, the line which will cause baby steps instead of strives

Thérèse Murphy: The Bioethical Triangle i. The concept The Bioethical Triangle in Murphy’s presentation refers to the three ethics of: Human Rights, Dignitarian ethics, and Utilitarian ethics. Human rights aspect stresses that the end goal and the focus of this concept is to serve Human Rights, the dignitarian relates to human dignity which must be protected through the biotechnological development, and also the technology is here to aim for empowering human dignity. Utilitarian ethics refer to human welfare, they aim to maximize the utility and minimize the harm.

Subjective exploration is portrayed by its points, which identify with seeing some part of social life, and its techniques which (as a rule) create words, as opposed to numbers, as information for investigation. The points and routines for subjective exploration can appear to be loose. Basic reactions include: tests are little and not so much illustrative of the more extensive populace, so it is hard to know how far we can sum up the outcomes; the discoveries need meticulousness; it is hard to tell how far the discoveries are one-sided by the specialist's own sentiments. The quality of subjective examination is its capacity to give complex text based portrayals of how Individuals encounter a given examination issue.