Mindbend – Cook, Robin

Mindbend By Robin Cook

 

 

 

 

For Barbara

 

 

PROLOGUE

FETAL RESEARCH BANNED

 

 

 

 

 

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New Regulations for Medical Research

 

 

 

 

 

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By HAROLD BARLOW

 

 

 

 

 

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Special to The New York Times

 

 

 

 

 

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WASHINGTON, July 12, 1974—President Richard M. Nixon signed into law today the National Research Act (Pub. L.

93-348). The law calls for the creation of a National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects in Biomedical and Behavioral Research. There has been growing concern about the ethics of research involving children, retarded persons, prisoners, the terminally ill, and particularly fetuses.

 

 

It is hoped that by creating appropriate guidelines some

of the shocking abuses that have been exposed of late can be obviated, such as the purposeful infecting of a large number of retarded children with hepatitis in order to study the natural progession of the disease, or the discovery a few