Title: Behind closed doors
Description: Drwaing on extensive archival sources, Laura Stark reconstructs the daily lives of scientists, lawyers, administrators, and research subjects working - and 'warring' - on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, where they first wrote the rules for the treatment of human subjects.
Subjects: Government policy, Medical ethics, Institutional review boards (Medicine), History, Human experimentation in medicine, Research, Medicine, united states, Human Experimentation, Legislation & jurisprudence, Biomedical Research, Ethics, Research Ethics Committees, Moral and ethical aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century