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Volume 329:1748 December 2, 1993 Number 23
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The Ethics and Politics of Human Experimentation

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By Paul M. McNeill. 315 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-41627-2.

If the unexamined life is not worth living, it would seem to follow that the unexamined practice is not worth carrying out. In this engaging book, Paul McNeill, an Australian teacher of medical law and ethics, examines the examiners: the committee process of ethical review of research on human subjects. Wide-ranging chapters examine the genesis and evolution of ethical codes for conducting research and committee review of research; current practices of research-ethics committees; and to a limited degree, the legal and ethical principles underlying research review. One of the book's many strengths is that the information it presents is based . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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