“Ethical Issues in the Story of Henrietta Lacks: A Manager’s Perspective”

some core ethical values include:
Integrity – exercising good judgment in professional practice
Honesty – truthfulness
Respect
Responsibility
Fidelity – faithfulness to clients
Kindness
According to an article posted by Steven Mintz aka Ethics Sage, August 1, 2018, “Values are essential to ethics.  Ethics is concerned with human actions, and the choice of those actions.  Ethics evaluates those actions, and the values that underie them.”  Click on the link below to read the full article on Core Values and Ethics.
Many of you may be familiar with the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.  Her story raises many ethical issues. For SWA #1: HELA, we will examine briefly the impact of values and ethics applied to the story of Henrietta Lacks.  I have provided links to a couple of articles that you will need to read, in order to complete the assignment.
In order to complete this assignment, please do the following:
Please click on the link below which will take you to the article “Henrietta’s Last Dance” by Rebecca Skloot.
Read the full blog on Values and Core Ethics 
After reading these articles, in no more than 3 pages, double-spaced, discuss what you believe are at least two (2) key ethical issues for the organization.  View the issues from the perspective of the manager in charge of the research unit.
https://pages.jh.edu/jhumag/0400web/01.html 

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