Andrea K. McDaniels, Washington Post; Henrietta Lacks’s family wants compensation for her cells
"Francis Lanasa, the attorney who will represent the family, said that he would use a “continuing tort” argument, alleging that Hopkins had continued to violate the “personal rights, privacy and body parts” of Henrietta Lacks over time.
“They are literally the foundation of modern medical science,” Lanasa said of the cells."
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Henrietta Lacks’s family wants compensation for her cells; Washington Post, February 14, 2017
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