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Assignment 1: Explicating arguments The article Marcia Angell wrote discusses the ethics of running clinical trials in areas of poverty such as third world countries. It is largely stressed that the well-being of participants should be the main priority of the study, above research goals and quick results. She explains that participants in clinical trials must receive the best-known treatment available when part of the control group; otherwise, researchers would knowingly be giving participants sub-par treatment compared to the drug being studied. To enact justice, even those living in third world countries should be receiving the same treatment that a participant in a first world country would receive.
An unsatisfied John Moore Based on the case “Moore v. Regents of the University of California” By Lani Marais 210013877 5 May 2016 An unsatisfied John Moore (Stanfill, 2012) John Moore is a cancer patient, from Seattle, that was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia in 1976. After he underwent surgery to remove his spleen, which was damaged by the cancer, he started to wonder if his doctor, Dr David Golde, was withholding information from him. He started to suspect this after a few follow-up visits. Golde was flying him to Los Angeles every month for seven years, when there was no noticeable reason for John to be in Dr Golde’s laboratory.
Chester Southam, the chief virologist at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, is just one of many examples of the great lengths those in the medical profession were willing to go in order to prove the effectiveness of the HeLa cancer cells. Southam and his contemporaries theorized that cancer was caused by either a virus or an immune deficiency, and in order to test this hypothesis he subsequently injected four hundred cancer patients with HeLa cells to study their biological reaction. Although his intentions were admirable in discovering the underlying causes for such a deadly disease, Southam consciously deceived his patients, telling them that “he was testing their immune systems; he said nothing about injecting them with someone else’s malignant cells.” The results proved disastrous for some of the patients that were injected with the cells with one patient’s report stating, “Henrietta’s cells metastasized” (Skloot, 128). After reviewing the results of the cancer patients, Southam then decided to test the HeLa cells on six hundred other patients awaiting gynecologic surgery, telling them that he was “testing them for cancer”
Kidney Transplants - The Hottest Thing Since Botox “Organ Sales Will Save Lives,” by Joanna MacKay, is an informative persuasive article where the author enlightens you about the worldwide kidney crisis and actively sways her readers into personally believing in her argument. MacKay uses facts to appeal to the readers' logic while simultaneously playing on their emotions in a perfect balance, and she is successful through substantial use of data, refutations, and a toss between a serious and passionate tone. MacKay starts her argument off strong by using the appeal of data. This is an amazing strategy to begin her argument with, considering not many people know what end-stage renal disease is, what it does to the body,
The experimentation of human cell culture has been a familiar scientific practice for many years; it has helped develop the polio vaccine, tested the infection of several viruses in humans, and has been used to further research on cancer, AIDs, and the effects of radiation. Despite these seemingly miraculous developments in science, many are unfamiliar with the woman behind these discoveries: Henrietta Lacks. In her novel, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot investigates the life of Henrietta Lacks, a poor African-American tobacco farmer diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951. Her cells, which were found to be “immortal” (continuously growing in cell culture), were extracted without her consent, and have become one of the
In order to research the theory of cancerous cells being infectious, two scientists traveled to an Ohio maximum security prison to conduct several experiments on prisoners. This testing involved taking the HeLa cells, and injecting the prisoners, to observe possible reactions. Despite the fact that the prisoners were informed of the risks, this experimentation was conducted intentionally to cause disease in another human being. This theory, however, was disproved as an infectious cancer because none of the test subjects developed full blown cancer.
I was annoyed that their solution to everything was, “Let’s cut off a limb and drain some of their blood!!!!!Yay medication!!Who needs sanitation!!!!” In today 's world, these practices would be considered flawed and
The Tuskegee study of Untreated Syphilis began in 1932, mainly designed to determine the history of untreated latent syphilis on 600 African American men in Tuskegee, Alabama. 201 out of 600 men were non-syphilitic just unknowingly involved in the study as a control group This study is known to be “the most infamous biomedical research study in the U.S history”. Most of these men had never visited a doctor and they had no idea what illness they had. All of the men agreed to be a participant thinking they were being treated for “bad blood” and plus they were given free medical care and meals.
Then, there was a sterilization experiment. They conducted the experiment by using drugs, surgery, and x-rays. Thousands of victims were experimented on. The most common choice was radiation treatment. The victims were deceived into going into a room where the treatment was being held.
“Throughout time, literature has been used as an instrument to revolt against social and political issues” This quote explains how literature has been used through out all these years and how it used violent action against an established government issues. A successful totalitarian government is when they have total control and access of the citizens and their social and personal life. Freedom is non existing if ruled under a totalitarian government. They rule through fear and only target on a specific religion and belief.
However, some of the men had to be turned down because their test result was positive for syphilis. Furthermore, after the news spread, there were constantly 407 men that requested the pills that were “pink medicine.” Eventually, the government doctors began disposing iron tonic for the men that were examined. The men were unaware that the pills disposed to them were placebo. On the other hand, the dependent variable is the men that were not treated.
Zoe Imagine being on a national organ transplant list and have been given a choice. Do you want a human organ or an animal organ? Yes, Xenotransplantation is a large medical breakthrough, but it come with a tremendous amount of risk involved. Animal organs are not meant to be in a humans body. Therefore, human organs should be used for people on the donation list instead of Xenotransplantation.
In the United States alone, 19 people die every day waiting on an organ transplant that could have saved their lives. The only solution to this problem is getting more drivers registered as organ donors. It has been proposed that the states automatically register their drivers as donors and it is up to the drivers to go through the procedure of opting out if that is what they wish. I agree with this proposal because you still have the freedom to make your choice but most people would not want to go through the process of opting out, so the number of organ donors would be greatly increased.
Organ donation is currently the only successful way of saving the lives of patients with organ failure and other diseases that require a new organ altogether. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services there is currently 122,566 patients both actively and passively on the transplant list. This number will continue to increase, in fact, every ten minutes another person is added to the list. Unfortunately, twenty-two of these people die while waiting for an organ on a daily basis. Each day, about eighty Americans receive a lifesaving organ transplant.
