I'm gonna deviate from my norm a little bit, and instead of talking directly about my personal experience, I'm gonna talk about something that is deeply relevant to all scientific studies, because you need to know about it. That's right, we're talking medical and scientific ethics. First, lets get the meme out of the way. While my opinion of that character and his "chaos theory" can be summed up by John Hammond , this quote is a pretty good representation of WHY we need to study medical ethics. Any graduate Probably the most commonly cited place to start with this conversation is Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cell line. You can read her story here , here , here , and here as well as this recent Nature editorial, Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong (the last two links are the ones that primarily address the ethical issues). I would also be remiss not to mention the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by ...
A first hand account of my experience as a PhD student in the biomedical sciences, related in real time as I'm going through my program. The focus of this blog is going to be more on the human experience than the specifics of the science, but there will be plenty of science in that experience. You can follow on Twitter @TheMacAran