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Paper instructions:

• Essays are to be constructed according to standard APA format and style.
  
  
  •Essays will be graded on both on progression through the writing process in a peer-review exercise (10%) and also on the quality, structure and insight of the argument in the final, polished draft (10%).  
  
  
  •Learners are expected to judiciously select and integrate a minimum of 5 secondary sources, 2 of which must be “peer-reviewed” by experts in the field.  
  
  
  •Each individual writer will also have a set of personal goals for the assignment, (defined by previous feedback from me) addressing grammar, clarity of expression and personal patterns of error.
  
  
  Nuts & Bolts
  •Essays must be submitted in pdf format. *Essays not submitted as pdf documents will not receive comments.
  •Essays must be submitted by email according to the schedule posted in the Announcements section.
  
  Resources
  
  The chapters on “Researching” and “APA” in addition to the section of “Writing in the Disciplines” that applies to your discipline. (Nursing students would read ”Writing in Nursing,” for example).
  •Evaluation Rubric for the Research Essay
  
  
  NOTE: While Skloot’s materials address theses issues in the United States, the concepts are transferable to a Canadian context. Be sure to specify your application of concepts or policies according to country, state, province or territory.
  
  Question 
  
  Rebecca Skloot opens The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) with a powerful statement from Elie Wiesel: “We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph” (The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code, qtd in Skloot, 2010). The story of Henrietta Lacks implicates the medical community in treating Lacks and her family as abstractions more than as human beings. Based upon the insights you’ve gleaned from Lacks’ story, along with your own research, respond to one of the questions below.
  
  1.Track the human consequences of the medical community having treated Lacks and her family as abstractions more than as human beings. You may want to address issues of cultural competency or cultural safety in healthcare, or you may want to propose changes in medical practice and/ or policy to prevent such events from being repeated.
  
  
  2.In mapping out the medical history of HeLa, Rebecca Skloot fleshes out the human history behind the gene. To what degree is it important to (re)connect humanity with medical research through narrative in such a way? Who benefits from “telling” or “knowing” the story?
  
  
  3.Is there room in medicine or medical science for empathy?  (*For nursing students: Does the practice of nursing act as a bridge between medical science and medical practice? Explain.)