Subjects or objects? Prisoners and human experimentation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 356, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 1806-1807

  Lerner, Barron H ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DIOXIN; INSULIN; NICOTINIC ACID;

CHEMICAL WARFARE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICISM; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INOCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; SHORT SURVEY; TESTIS BIOPSY; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WAR; ARTICLE; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HISTORY; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGANIZATION; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT;

ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (U.S.); PRISONERS; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 34247849455     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp068280     Document Type: Article

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