Word: nih
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Institutes of Health responded with rules establishing research review committees at all institutions receiving NIH money. The committees were to include community representatives and members of non-medical professions. NIH also set up standards of "informed consent," specifying the kinds of information researchers had to provide their subjects before experimenting on them...
...once: "Decisions about the direction of research should be left to individual investigators rather than deans..." The phrase, "direction of research," is vague and in another context the statement might seem benign. But in the midst of Bok's complaints it could be interpreted as a slap at the NIH-mandated review process and as a boost to the misguided notion that "freedom of inquiry" guarantees to all scientists the right to do as they please with their experimental subjects. Not that Bok accepts that notion; but since he offers no evidence that he rejects it or that he appreciates...
Thomas, a member of the Recombinant DNA Molecule Program Advisory Committee, which proposed the guidelines to NIH, said that "none of the experiments have been shown to have high risks and the dangers are purely hypothetical...
Margo G. Haygood '76, a member of a special advisory committee which met last week to assist Donald Fredrickson, the director of NIH, in his final decision on research guidelines, said yesterday that she approves "the basics of the guideline," adding that she was called on "to provide public input...
Richard N. Goldstein, Houghton Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, who represented the Boston-area recombinant DNA group before the special advisory committee at NIH, said yesterday the dangers and risks in DNA research are "very real...