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Henrietta Lacks (1920–1951)
By: Rohini Nott
| Published: Oct 09, 2020
Henrietta Lacks, born Loretta Pleasant, had terminal cervical cancer in 1951, and was diagnosed at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,…
PeopleAfrican American History MonthWomen in medicine--HistoryMedicine--United States--Historybioethics
York v. Jones [Brief] (1989)
By: Brock Heathcotte
| Published: May 09, 2008
The court treated frozen embryos possessed by an in vitro fertilization clinic as property owned by the parents and held under a bailment contract by…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilization
Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey (2012)
By: Reem Gerais
| Published: Jun 23, 2017
In the 2012 case Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. David Lakey, a US appeals court ruled as constitutional a Texas law that…
LawAbortionAbortion servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortion--Law and legislation
Stem Cells
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Oct 29, 2010
According to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the standard American source on stem cell research, three characteristics of stem cells…
Stem Cells
45 CFR 46: Protection of Human Subjects under United States Law (1974)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Jun 17, 2010
In the United States, the Code of Federal Regulations Title 45: Public Welfare, part 46 (45 CFR 46) provides protection for human subjects in…
LawGovernmentFetus
Thesis: A History and Analysis of Drug Labeling Policy for Pregnant and Lactating Women and Women's Involvement in Clinical Drug Research from 1970 to 2014
By: Caroline Meek
| Published: Mar 01, 2021
The problem of whether women should be involved in drug research is a question of who can assume risk and who is responsible for disseminating what…
Research--Moral and ethical aspectsResearchMoral and ethical aspectsEthics, ResearchResearch Ethics
Kass v. Kass [Brief] (1998)
By: Brock Heathcotte
| Published: Apr 29, 2008
In a case of first impression in the state of New York, the highest state court decided that a priori written agreement between progenitors of frozen…
LawFertilization in VitroReproductionFertilizationbioethics
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932–1972)
By: Sabrin Mohamed
| Published: Aug 07, 2025
In 1932, the United States Public Health Service, or USPHS, began the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, initially known as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated…
SyphilisTuskegee Syphilis StudyInformed ConsentBlack or African AmericanSyphilis--Research--United States
Human Embryonic Stem Cells
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Sep 13, 2010
Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that are capable of dividing for long periods of time and can give rise to specialized cells under particular…
Stem CellsReproductiondifferentiationHuman Development
A. Z. v. B. Z. (2000)
By: Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
In A.Z. v. B.Z. (2000), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts, affirmed a lower courtÕs decision, ruling that…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroPregnancyEmbryos