Institutional Review Boards and the Freedom to Take Risks

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This article treats lightly a topic that usually receives more sober treatment. Since the Surgeon General of the United States first issued regulations in 1966 governing the use of human subjects in research funded by the National Institutes of Health, the problems that prompted his action have been discussed widely, exhaustively, and earnestly.1 Also since 1966, however, concern for protecting subjects has been extended beyond research that threatens bodily harm to include research that threatens the subject's ego, and even further, to include studies that threaten the principles espoused by those who make applied ethics their profession.2 The research enterprise . . .

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