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Edited by James F. Childress, Eric M. Meslin, and Harold T. Shapiro. 279 pp. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press, 2005. $29.95. ISBN 1-58901-062-0.

On July 12, 1974 — one month before he resigned in response to the Watergate scandal — President Richard Nixon signed the National Research Act, which Congress had passed in response to another scandal that was also linked to a place name: Tuskegee. This law created the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, which was charged with various investigative and deliberative duties, including a statutory responsibility "to identify the basic ethical principles that should underlie the conduct of biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects."

Several months and 15 meetings into their deliberations, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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