Berkley Freshmen

I'm not sure how I feel about this article.  Yes what the university is asking is voluntary, and students have the right to deny participation or not, but if they refuse they will be, or think that they will be, seen differently and possibly treated differently by certain administration. More then the students who do participate.  Personally, I feel that testing on humans should be done by voluntary people who have no connection to the institution doing the testing at all.  Any other way I would feel is just unethical.

Research Paper Link

This is article is about informed consent and the process and obligations that are involved with it.  I believe that this article will be very helpful in my research paper because it gives a greater insight into informed consent then the book has, which will allow me to talk more about it. You will find the article here.

Writing Prompt: Cell Retrieval

If I found out that investigators or researchers took cells from one of my family members without consent I would be flabbergasted! To think that an institution, even if it were for research that would benefit all, would take cells from someone without telling them is not only ethically, but morally wrong.  Not only would I feel surprised, but I would also feel like my family has been violated and taken advantage of.  To find out that a part of the person in your family is still living and growing somewhere, and it would just feel wrong.  I also would attempt at filling a criminal lawsuit against the organization that harvested the cells.  I wouldn't ask for monetary compensation, although I would ask for some sort of justice to be served against the people responsible, to insure that no body else has to go through what I would have had to go through.