Privacy Rights Violations

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Having rights to what doctors do to cells also contributes to the respect of privacy. Without rights on what doctors do to tissues, the patient is manipulated in a way that they do not want to be. The rights evolved over the course of American history by continually developing. Privacy rights are more tangible with the ability to sue companies, rather than being ambiguous. However, the rights are constantly being changed due to the advancing technology. For example, with technology, people are able to view cases more indept and learn more about what is wrong and what is right. Therefore, with the advancing technology people are more informed to rights that they should have and changing rights are directly shown on media for everyone to know. …show more content…
Files about Henrietta were exposed, such as her name and medical records. For example, a magazine article published about “the cells without their knowledge.” (5) Skloot implies that journalism and reports takes advantage of people’s fear and exposes them for everyone else to see. For example, Henrietta had a personal problem with wanting to figure out whether she had cancer or not and scientists exposed her problem for the whole world to know what she was going through. Doctors sold her cancerous cell to other lab cultures without her permission and research was being conducted without her permission as well. Therefore, Skloot implies that doctors not only violated their patients back then, and could still be violating their patients now-a-days without them knowing, by using their tissues for research, but exposed their story to for the whole world to see through journal

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