Explain why you agree or disagree with each of the following points.

1-The Only Thing Moving

Can we judge the past by standards of the present? Such judgments imply that we are now better. But perhaps we just have new forms of blindness. Today, we have new regulations to protect patients' privacy. But in every other domain of life, we have far less privacy than ever before. We live in a world where "each person's every living day [is] recorded in complete detail and reproducible with a few deft keystrokes" (Powers 1998). Privacy is not always either desirable or safe. Sometimes, privacy leads isolation and vulnerability. Hospital patients may be at risk of harm if family members cannot get information about them (Slishman 2015). Hospitals may not be able to both protect privacy and also measure and improve the quality of care (Kaiser 2006). Total safety can be more dangerous than flawed risk assessments. We may all end up dying

2-Cry Out Sharply

The prophetic voice still calls for justice. No one should be exploited for the benefit of others. It is a travesty that the Lacks family doesn't have health insurance. But if researchers had never taken Henrietta's cells, her children would still lack health insurance. If her cells had not led to valuable scientific discoveries, they would be even worse off than they are now. They would have neither health insurance nor the polio vaccine

3-Lucid, Inescapable Rhythms

Which research participants should be compensated and how much should they receive? Should the Lacks family be singled out for compensation because Henrietta's cells happened to become extraordinarily useful? What of those who participated in research that didn't pan out? Should compensation be offered on the basis of the luck of the draw to those who, through no effort of their own, have genetically advantageous tissues? Should compensation be offered only to those whose researchers understood how to monetize their discoveries? By this approach, compensation would reflect luck, not justice. Faden (2011) suggests that we should all freely donate our tissues to research in the hope that, as with HeLa cells, the resulting discoveries will benefit us all.

3-A Fear Pierced Him

We all benefit from research that leads to new discoveries and better treatments. We all want our privacy preserved. But what if we cannot have both? How many new discoveries are we willing to give up in order to preserve each small sliver of our rapidly disappearing privacy?