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Protecting
Human
Subjects

First Biennial Report on the
Adequacy and Uniformity of Federal

Rules and Policies, and their Implementation,
for the Protection of Human Subjects in
Biomedical and Behavioral Research

December 1981

President's Commission for the Study of
Ethical Problems in Medicine and
Biomedical and Behavioral Research

President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research

Morris B. Abram, M.A., J.D., LL.D., Chairman,
New York, N.Y.

Renée C. Fox, Ph.D., D.H.L.
University of Pennsylvania
Mario García-Palmieri, M.D.
Univeristy of Puerto Rico
Frances K. Graham, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
Albert R. Jonsen,
S.T.M., Ph.D.

Univeristy of California,
San Francisco

Mathilde Krim, Ph.D. *

Sloan-Kettering Institute for

Cancer Research

Donald N. Medearis, Jr., M.D.
Harvard University

Arno G. Motulsky, M.D.
University of Washington

Anne A. Scitovsky, M.A.
Palo Alto Medical Research
Foundation

Charles J. Walker, M.D.
Nashville, Tennessee

Carolyn A. Williams, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill

* Resignation accepted by President Reagan on December 8, 1981.

Assistant Directors
Joanne Lynn, M.D.
Alan J. Weisbard, J.D.

Professional Staff
Mary Ann Baily, Ph.D.
Dan Brock, Ph.D.
Andrew Burness, M.B.A.
Susan Morgan

Marian Osterweis, Ph.D.
Renie Schapiro, M.P.H.

Research Assisants
Michelle Leguay

Jeffrey Stryker

Consultants

Bradford H. Gray, Ph.D.
Dorle Vawter

Support Staff

Florence Chertok

Ruth Morris

Clara Pittman

Kevin Powers
Nancy Watson

President's Commission
Commonwealth Fellows and
Student Interns

Joshua Abram (1980)
Deborah Blacker (1980)
Cheryl Cooper (1980)

Jeffrey Katz (1981)

Kathryn Kelly (1981)
Ruth Oratz (1981)

Henry S. Richardson (1981)

Jennifer Seton (1980)
David Tancredi (1981)

William Thompson (1981)