The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe

by Robert Klitzman

Book Overview

Research on human beings saves countless lives, but has at times harmed the participants. To what degree then should government regulate science, and how? The horrors of Nazi concentration camp experiments and the egregious Tuskegee syphilis study led the US government, in 1974, to establish Research Ethics Committees, known as Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to oversee research on humans. The US now has over 4,000 IRBs, which examine yearly tens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199364605
• ISBN13: 9780199364602
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"