The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe

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.