Better Business, 5/e

Team Time

One Issue, Three Sides

Divide into three teams, one to represent each of the following:

1. Pharmaceutical company executives

2. People with a catastrophic but treatable illness

3. People identified as having “unique” DNA

Scenario

Are there some things that can’t be owned? Leukemia patient John Moore would answer yes. After Moore had his cancerous spleen removed at the University of California–Los Angeles, the university kept the spleen and was eventually granted a patent for DNA removed from the organ. The value of the DNA was estimated to be more than $1 billion. When Moore demanded his cells from his spleen be returned, the California Supreme Court ruled against him, saying that he had no right to his own cells after they had been removed ...