Legal Liability in Clinical Investigations

Abstract
DESPITE the concentrated attention given to legal regulation of human experimentation, including clinical medical investigation, in this country, there have been very few claims and even fewer actual lawsuits against investigators for any type of injury to subjects. The official guidelines on research of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare actually cite only one appellate-court case involving a research subject, and that is, ironically, a Canadian decision,2 not an American case.It seems important, therefore, to report on a recently published opinion of a New York court in a lawsuit that involved human experimentation.3 The research was conducted at . . .

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