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Previous Volume 333:886 September 28, 1995 Number 13

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Edited by Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Meyer Bobby, and Harvey V. Fineberg. 541 pp. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 1995. $59.95. ISBN 0-309-05132-0.

Since the demise of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research in March of 1983, a strange fate has attended efforts to constitute a similar body. Congress, or the President, or both are continually on record expressing their desire for such institutions; legislation has been passed to create them; and yet nothing — or essentially nothing — ever seems to come of it. Currently there is talk of a new Ethics Advisory Board in the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as interest in a National Bioethics Advisory Commission, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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