minus-squareStaccato@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger PlanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoInformed consent laws were around well before The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out. I think there were earlier publicized examples of subject mistreatment (like Tuskegee) that already pushed the field to be better. linkfedilink
minus-squareStaccato@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger PlanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months ago23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks. linkfedilink
Informed consent laws were around well before The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out. I think there were earlier publicized examples of subject mistreatment (like Tuskegee) that already pushed the field to be better.