"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Henrietta Lacks" from Jack Lantos. From this four points explain why you agree or disagree with each point.

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

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

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? Ways of Looking at Henrietta Lacks

Read the article "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Henrietta Lacks" from Jack Lantos. Select four points that Lantos makes and explain why you agree or disagree with each point.

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

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

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?