Human-Subject Regulations Not Just for Medical Research

To the Editor:

In "Transsexual 'Subjects' Complain About Professor's Research Methods" (July 25), Robin Wilson noted that numerous scholars believe that the federal regulations governing the involvement of human participants in research were designed from the outset to oversee medical research. As someone who has the task of protecting human-research participants and has an interest in the historical aspect of the legislation, I can assure those scholars that from the get-go, both

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