Wednesday October 16, 2013
4:00-6:00PM
Engineering 2, Room 599
Joanna Radin (Yale, Department of History) will join us to discuss what happens when biological tissues in freezers take on different ethical meanings over time. What are our responsibilities towards the life immortal? Who is responsible? At this session, we will also discuss the recent NIH decision to give the Henrietta Lacks family the right to oversee uses of the HeLa cell line derived from Henrietta Lacks. See here for a recent magazine article by Radin on these topics.