More on Human Research

While on the topic of human-subject research, I should mention what an outstanding text is the book that LexisNexis has lately been hawking in the right-hand column of this page: The Ethics and Regulation of Human Subject Research by Carl Coleman, Jerry Menikoff, Jesse Goldner & Nancy Dubler.  Although written as a casebook, it is an invaluable reference work as well.  My human-research book shelf has about 25 titles, if I could only keep 1, this would be it.  Add the reading edited by Emanuel et al. in Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research: Readings and Commentary and you have just about all the library you need (and I say that as a loyal reader of Robert Levine's classic but dated text (my candidate for #3 on the shelf)). [tm]