A Brief Summary On Skloot's Deception

Skloot's claim which is ,''the Deception was for his own benefit-he was withholding information because patients might have refused to participate in his study if they'd known what he was injecting.'' Skloot does have relevant and sufficient evidence to support her claim throughout the rest of the excerpt. Southham was injecting people with cancer out of his own paranoia fearing that cancer was contagious he decided to test his theory on 12 oblivious cancer patients by telling them he was checking their immune system . After his theory proved correct southham went to a prison in Ohio were he injected 150 prisoners who were aware of what he was injecting them with to test weather a healthy immune system would fight it off. Southham was deceiving his patients in order to fuel his study injecting over 600 people who most were unaware and some he told he was checking for cancer.his research was breaking the nuremburg code. The Nuremburg code was a code that stated that no person could be treated with
In the text it states,"when Southham began injecting people with HeLa cells in 1994, there was no formal research oversight in the united states.Since the turn of the century, politicians had been introducing state and federal laws with hopes of regulating human experimentation, but physicians and researchers always protested. The bill was repeatedly voted down for fear of interfering with the progress of science, even though other countries-including, ironically, Prussia-had enacted regulations governing human research as early as 1891,'' The researchers them selves made it seem okay to test on a human without consent for the sake of science. southham stated he did it for everyone so what he was saying was its okay to harm one person for everyone else's benefit but if we asked that we would be crossing to a new territory of the value of one life compared to millions, but that was the counter argument southham