Essays on Cervical Cancer

This paper will explain how consent and ethics is crucial and how it has impacted many African American people today. We have seen that medical consent has a dark history that has affected this country for a long time. As far back as the period of slavery, African American people have been discriminated against and have been used for studies with uninformed consent. In the 1940’s, Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman, was treated for her cervical cancer. Doctors at…...

The HeLa cell line was formed from Henrietta Lacks, a thirty-one-year-old African American who was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Howard Jones, a gynecologist, informed Henrietta that her biopsy came back positive for cervical cancer. When Henrietta went for her first treatment, Dr.Wharton Jr scraped two pieces of tissues from Henrietta’s cervix, without informed consent from her. He passed the tissue to Dr. George Gey, a researcher at John Hopkins hospital. Henrietta’s cells weren’t like the other patients who cells just…...

AbstractForensic science is the application of scientific techniques and theories to solve crimes. Forensic science consists of many different disciplines e.g Forensic Pathology, Forensic Odontology, Forensic DNA Analysis, Forensic Anthropology, Digital Forensics and many more other disciplines. [19]Advances in DNA analysis and replication and the implementation of the CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) allows DNA evidence to be more effective in solving current and cold cases as well as tying perpetrators to multiple cases. [5]GlossaryDNA: DNA is a biological signature…...