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Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Barbara F. Mishkin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-030
Abstract

The collection contains documents related to U.S. bioethics commissions and other federal agencies that belonged to Barbara F. Mishkin. This includes the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, the Ethics Advisory Board, the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research Records, and the Office of Technology Assessment.

Dates: 1973 - 1990

National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Records

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-001
Abstract

The collection documents 43 meetings of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research held between 1974 and 1978 and includes briefing books, subject files, and transcripts from these meetings. The Executive’s Branch of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare established the group in 1974 and it is considered one of the first modern bioethics commissions.

Dates: 1974 - 1978