Tag: Ethics
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Patient HeLa – PBL Case
In January, 1951 Henrietta Lacks was referred by her doctor to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, because she suffered from abnormal bleedings between her regular menstrual cycles. The gynecologist Howard Jones, working at the hospital, discovered a small tumor of purple color on her cervix. Mary Kubicek was successful in establishing an immortal cell line…
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A Life for a Life – PBL Case
The discussion of whether animals should or should not be used in medical research is highly controversial. The two most frequently discussed arguments are epistemological and ethical in nature; with respect to knowledge generation, some researchers claim that testing living animals is indispensable for medical research as only a full living organism can reveal the…