Medical Research Ethics

How did the Lacks family, the media, and the general population view the medical community during the 1950s? What is the Nuremberg Code? How was it used, and was it easily enforced? Why or why not? 

How have ethics and laws around medical research with human subjects changed? How is the medical community viewed today, and what do you think would have happened in Henrietta Lacks’s case if she lived today? 

• Part 2
• navigate to the Breach Portal on the Office for Civil Rights website and review the list of breaches of unsecured protected health information. https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report…

, discuss the following: 

The states where the breaches occurred 

The covered entity types 

The number of individuals affected in each breach 

The month and year when the breaches were reported 

The type of breach 

The location of breached information 

Look for trends and extract any information that can be useful for compliance within the organization.