January 3, 2003

Protecting Subjects of Research

To the Editor:

I agree thoroughly with C.K. Gunsalus's call for rethinking the role of the institutional review board in protecting the rights of research subjects, and with her distinction between behavioral and biomedical research ("Rethinking Protections for Human Subjects," The Review, November 15). However, there are other points to be weighed. One of them is the difference between the unsupervised research ... that characterizes many biomedical settings and the highly

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