November 15, 2002

Rethinking Protections for Human Subjects

By C.K. GUNSALUS

Has the pendulum swung too far in the application of human-subject protections to scholarly research? Several well-publicized deaths -- including that of Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year-old who died during a gene-therapy experiment -- in clinical trials, along with scientific advances in cloning, human genetics, and stem-cell research, have led to heightened scrutiny of academic research by the government and the news media. As a result, some universities have become hypercautious about

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