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A Social Justice Framework for Health and Science Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2011

RUTH FADEN  and
MADISON POWERS
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The goal of this article is to explore how a social justice framework can help illuminate the role that consent should play in health and science policy. In the first section, we set the stage for our inquiry with the important case of Henrietta Lacks. Without her knowledge or consent, or that of her family, Mrs. Lacks’s cells gave rise to an enormous advance in biomedical science—the first immortal human cell line, or HeLa cells.

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Special Section: From Informed Consent to No Consent?
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 596 - 604
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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