The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe

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By Robert Klitzman ’80

Published March 4, 2016

The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe  provides insight into the influential but secretive institutional-review boards that decide whether scientific research using human subjects meets ethical standards. Robert Klitzman ’80 sheds light on the internal workings of this little-understood system and discusses possible improvements. Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University.

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