Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future

by Holly Fernandez Lynch and I. Glenn Cohen

Experts from different disciplines offer novel ideas for improving research oversight and protection of human subjects.

The current framework for the regulation of human subjects research emerged largely in reaction to the horrors of Nazi human experimentation, revealed at the Nuremburg trials, and the Tuskegee syphilis study, conducted by U.S. government researchers from 1932 to 1972. This framework, combining elements of paternalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262526212
• ISBN13: 9780262526210
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher