Other Experiments

Experiments on Children and Pregnant Women

• Risk of Harn and Nontherapeutic Research with Children
• Beyond Risk: Other Dimensions of the Ethics of Nontherapeutic Research on Children
from the ACHRE Final Report

• Vanderbilt Study of Pregnant Women with Radioactive Iron under Experiments Performed by the Atomic Energy Commission
• Fernald State School under Experiments Performed by the Atomic Energy Commission
• Case Western Reserve University study of children with and without Cystic Fibrosis of the Pancreas
• Uptake of Iodine-131 in Normal Newborn Infants in Iowa City
• Studies on Protein-Bound Iodine-131 in Children
• Study of Hormone Conversion During Human Pregnancy Using Carbon-14

Research on Psychiatric Patients

• Enough Room, February 1999 This issue of Roy Bercaw's newsletter focuses on abuse of human rights in medical experimentation, particularly psychiatric research.
• Protection of Human Subjects in Experimentation Act Text of a bill submitted by Roy Bercaw to the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Are Research Ethics Bad for Our Mental Health? by Robert Michels, M.D., New England Journal of Medicine, May 6, 1999 -- Vol. 340, No. 18. Largely a criticism of recent National Bioethics Advisory Commission recommendations about research on psychiatric patients.