A Social Justice Framework for Health and Science Policy

The goal of this article is to explore how a social justice framework can help illuminate the role that consent should play in health and science policy. In the first section, we set the stage for our inquiry with the important case of Henrietta Lacks. Without her knowledge or consent, or that of he...

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Main Author: Faden, Ruth (Author)
Contributors: Powers, Madison
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2011
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 596-604
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Summary:The goal of this article is to explore how a social justice framework can help illuminate the role that consent should play in health and science policy. In the first section, we set the stage for our inquiry with the important case of Henrietta Lacks. Without her knowledge or consent, or that of her family, Mrs. Lacks’s cells gave rise to an enormous advance in biomedical science—the first immortal human cell line, or HeLa cells.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180111000338