Argumentative Essay About Hela Cell Experiments

In the past, scientists have done very unwise and unimaginable experiments with humans as the test subject. Like in 1932, the public health service was working to find treatment for syphilis in the african american race.They had 600 black men, 399 with syphilis and 201 that did not have the disease. Without the patient's knowing that they were contracted with syphilis, scientists told the men that they were being treated for “bad blood”. But really they were not given the right treatment to cure their illness. Also in exchange the men received free medical exams, free meals, and burial insurance, which is like life insurance. But in 1968 this research raised concern for peter buxton and others, so they wrote a news article about what these
scientists were doing, in that same year the studies stopped on this experiment. In 1973 congress held a hearing on behalf of the study participants. It’s pretty obvious that the participants in the study won & they were granted lifetime medical benefits and burial insurance to the living participants. on may 16, 1997 president clinton apologized on behalf of the nation. In the end, on january 16,2004 the last participant in the study died. The scientist found that it was necessary to conduct research on human beings because they thought that the people would have never known about how they were being lied to. (http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm) Another crazy experiment done on humans is during the holocaust, the nazis would use humans and The freezing experiments were divided into two parts. First, to establish how long it would take to lower the body temperature to death and second how to best freeze the victim. The two methods were put the person in a big tub of freezing water or putting them outside naked in sub zero temperatures. Two prisoner men were seen by a prisoner doctor and told them to stop. He asked the directing doctor to take them out of the tank. they did not listen to the doctor and and the men got mad and increased the temperature and They died after a long painful stay in the tank. The development of Hela cells changed the way research could be conducted because the hela cells stayed alive forever so they could just do the same experiments they would on humans, on the hela cells since they’re still alive. Also hela cells are in the first vaccine for polio. hela cells are also used in cosmetics for women and men to make them look younger.
hela cells also help with finding cures and other medical problems. For the most part the hela cells have been successful with researching these things. Scientists have endless supply for research with hela cells and companies sell hela cells for profit.So scientists don’t have to experiment on humans and animals as much anymore, they just hela cells. HeLa cells were used to jump start research on how viruses act and reprogram cells, as well as to develop standard lab practices for freezing and tissues. Scientists used them to develop cell cloning, and isolation of stem cells, and research on AIDS, cancer, and the effects of radiation and toxic gases. So with saying that, hela cells have been very successful in the science world. On a site i found some interesting facts that say why henrietta lacks is one of the important women in the medical field. one of the interesting facts are; A scientist accidentally poured a chemical on a HeLa cell that spread out its tangled chromosomes. Later on, scientists used this technique to determine that humans have 46 chromosomes—23 pairs—not 48, which provided the basis for making several types of genetic
diagnoses.
(http://berkeleysciencereview.com/article/good-bad-hela/)
(http://remember.org/educate/medexp)
(http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-01/five-reasons-henrietta-lacks-most-important-woman-medical-history)