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."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. 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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