Prepare
your responses in a Microsoft Word document. You will upload and submit your
responses to Blackboard in Week 7.5. Your response should be approximately 500
words in length and should conform to the standards of APA formatting.
Follow the link to a New York Times article titled A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later. Once you’ve read the article, please answer the following question in
essay form. Use the guiding questions below to develop your response. You
should include research from at least two scholarly resources to support your
ideas. Be sure to provide in-text citations and a References page.
Did the doctors
violate Henrietta Lacks’s rights in the case presented in the article above?
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Briefly identify and describe the philosophical
approaches one can use to assist in the decision-making processes related to
typical healthcare scenarios. Identify the approach you would like to use in
reviewing this case.
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Based on your choice of philosophical approach,
identify the underlying ethical situations presented by the case and explain
how your chosen approach applies to the situation.
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How would you resolve the ethical dilemmas
presented in this case, based on your philosophical approach?
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If you were in the same situation as the doctors
involved is Ms. Lacks’s treatment, would you have made the same choices?
Evaluate their choices from a moral standpoint, along with how you think you
would have acted under the same circumstances, and explain your reasoning.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-family-consents-to-a-medical-gift-62-years-later/
