-Write 4-5 typed, double-spaced pages (1300-1500 words), plus a -Works Cited page (a 5th or 6th page).
Make sure to use a convincing number of MLA-formatted quotations from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in your essay. While I would like the majority of your quotations and evidence to come from the book, you must also include at least one quote from one of the resources I link you to in this module and/or in the prompts below.
-Please use a standard font (i.e., Times New Roman in size 12) and one-inch margins.

ESSAY:
-What rights should people have over their own cells and tissues? Nowadays, “if doctors want to gather tissues from patients strictly for research purposes…they are required to get informed consent. But storing tissues from diagnostic procedures like, say, mole biopsies, and using them in future research doesn’t require such consent” (Skloot 318). In other words, once tissues are separated from your body, “your rights get murky” (317). Discuss the cases of Henrietta Lacks, John Moore (Chapter 25), and Ted Slavin (Chapter 25). Evaluate the proposals for compensation of cell/tissue donors proposed by Christoph Lengauer (Chapter 32) and by others (Afterword). For new developments in the family’s involvement in the determination of the use of the HeLa genome, see Rebecca Skloot’s Frequently Asked Questions page (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. which includes her 2013 New York Times article, "Henrietta Lacks: The Sequel." (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.