When people ask – I say, Yeah, that’s right, my mother [’s] name was Henrietta Lacks,

she died in 1951, Johns Hopkins took her cells and them cells are still living today,

still multiplying, still growin and spreadin if you don’t keep em frozen. Science calls

her HeLa... But I always thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for

medicine, how come her family can’t afford to see no doctors? Don’t make no sense.

People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them taking her cells,

now we don’t get a dime.

Deborah, daughter of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot 2010 : 9)

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The Immortal Life of Ethics? The

Alienation of Body Tissue, Ethics and the

Informed Consent Procedure Within

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research

Casimir MacGregor, Tristan McCaughey, Megan Munsie,

Alice Pébay and Alex Hewitt

© The Author(s) 2017
R.M. Shaw (ed.), Bioethics Beyond Altruism,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55532-4_3

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C. MacGregor (*) · T. McCaughey
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
e-mail: [email protected]

M. Munsie · A. Pébay
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

A. Hewitt
Menzies Institute of Medical Research, University of Tasmania,
Tasmania, Australia

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