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Israel Santana

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The sense ownership and possible interconnection with tissues that are no longer attached to the body can blind a person from the logics behind the scientific processes and/or intentions to further advance and expand research in the science. Ethics plays a significant role, considering there is no obligation to notify a patient when removed tissues are going to be taken to be further examined with the intention of random studies. This study implies the greater success of an individual, as well as a discovery or great finding that don’t acknowledge the donor who greatly contributed to this study. Another controversial topic is the money involved in science discoveries and their beneficiaries. This topic of wealth or even “social class” can be considered of greater moral sensitivity. The lower income families are usually the ones with greater medical complications dealing with much severe illnesses that can be due to the lack of funds to treat such. If a sample is taken from this particular group of patients, without their consent this group does not benefit from it due to their lack of resources and are ultimately being taken advantage of.

 In a way we all have some obligation to support and help advance science, but the subjects of morals and ethics can interfere. In the case of the Henrietta lacks, there seemed to be a metaphysical, both spiritual and emotional attachment to her cells that haunted her family. Even though the tissues that are removed from one’s body are no longer useful or are attached to the body, there is a sense of owner ship. We as human are attached to these tissues at one point. An example is the bond that a mother has with the growing child. Although this is a big leap it has significance. It is a great bond that is sowed through the pregnancy and when a tragedy happens in the case of a miscarriage, a deep loss and pain is under gone. The body is a cluster of growing cells that I themselves hold our entire identity.