Imagine going to the doctor to get checked because you feel sick and they tell you that you need treatment. You think that the doctors are doing is giving you treatment for your sickness, you wake up the next day and you find out that the doctors took a part out of your body without your permission. Would you consider these actions right or would you consider it unethical for doctors to do this without you knowing. Is it ethical to enroll subjects in research when they are not capable of giving free and fully informed consent?. In this essay I will be talking about what informed consent is, and why it is so important in medical research. I will explain the rights it provides to the patients, and why it has been required in health society. I will also talk about the Nuremberg Code's significance, and how it was first brought about. I will also include information about studies that violated the Nuremberg Code, and why the HeLa studies also violated the code. I will include information from the book The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks and the primary source "Fifty Years Later: The Significance of the Nuremberg Code", along with eight other sources. Informed Consent is letting the patient or research subject know exactly what the doctors are going to do, and the dangers of the process. "Patients fill out a general consent form when they are admitted or receive treatment from a healthcare institution," (Jessica De Bord). What De Bord means by this, is that patients have to fill out a form to give doctors permission to receive treatment, and participate in the study. Informed Consent provides the patient the right to decide whether they want to accept or refuse treatment. Patients also have the right to end their participation at any time during the treatment. According to Stanny Kass' article titled "Informed Consent Outline", the patient must be competent to enter a legal agreement to give informed consent. Patients must be at least 18 years of age, and must not be considered legally incompetent. A patient that is legally considered incompetent is someone who has a mental illness, disability, and cannot make a decision on his own. According to Adam's article titled "Informed Consent-Adults", informed consent is not required in an emergency when delayed treatment would be dangerous for the patients. It is unethical to enroll subjects in research who are not capable of giving free, and fully informed consent,such as children, people with significant cognitive impairments or institutionalized populations. According to Kass, children who are minors, and