The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Dr. McKusick directed Susan Hsu to contact Henrietta ’ s children for blood samples to further HeLa research; neither McKusick nor Hsu tried to get informed consent for this research

why did they do that

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They only cared about their research and not the people they were getting samples from. Henrietta and her children were only raw material to further their own ambitions.