Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

Résumé du livre

The Committee conducted an intensive inquiry into the history of gov't.-sponsored human radiation experiments & intentional environmental releases of radiation that occurred between 1944 & 1974. They studied the ethical standards of that time & of the 1990s & developed a moral framework for evaluating these experiments. Finally, they examined the extent to which current policies & practices appear to protect the rights & interests of today's human subjects. Chapters: documents pertaining to agency ethics policies; Univ. of Calif. case study; current Fed. policies governing human subjects research; research proposal review project; subject interview study; & outside views on the current system for the protection of human subjects. Biblio.