Updating the Canon: The Story of Henrietta Lacks Is Not Over
Keisha Ray
Three cases appear in almost every bioethics course: the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the death of Jesse Gelsinger, and the story of Henrietta Lacks. All three are taught as cautionary tales about what happens when research goes wrong. But only two of them have legal endings. Tuskegee led to congressional hearings, the Belmont Report, and the […] The post Updating the Canon: The Story of Henrietta Lacks Is Not Over appeared first on Bioethics Today .