Archive for December 5th, 2007

I like my scientific history with a twist of bioethical dilemma, please

In 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks unknowingly became one of medical history's most important sources of information about cancer. She also became one of biomedical ethics' most controversial figures--both celebrated and reviled, through no fault of her own. Lacks went into the hospital in February of that year complaining of a [...]