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

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

SANTA CRUZ

MAR 1982

U.S. DEPOS.
GOV'T. PUSS. · LIBRARY

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. Donald N. Medearis, Jr., M.D.
University of Pennsylvania Harvard University
Mario García-Palmieri, M.D.

Arno G. Motulsky, M.D.
Univeristy of Puerto Rico

University of Washington Frances K. Graham, Ph.D.

Anne A. Scitovsky, M.A. University of Wisconsin

Palo Alto Medical Research
Albert R. Jonsen,

Foundation
S.T.M., Ph.D.
Univeristy of California,

Charles J. Walker, M.D.
San Francisco

Nashville, Tennessee Mathilde Krim, Ph.D.* Carolyn A. Williams, Ph.D. Sloan-Kettering Institute for University of North Carolina, Cancer Research

Chapel Hill

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

Staff

Alexander M. Capron, LL.B., Executive Director Deputy Director

Administrative Officer Barbara Mishkin, M.A., J.D. Anne Wilburn

Support Staff Assistant Directors

Florence Chertok Joanne Lynn, M.D.

Ruth Morris Alan J. Weisbard, J.D.

Clara Pittman

Kevin Powers
Professional Staff

Nancy Watson
Mary Ann Baily, Ph.D.
Dan Brock, Ph.D.

President's Commission
Andrew Burness, M.B.A. Commonwealth Fellows and
Susan Morgan

Student Interns Marian Osterweis, Ph.D.

Joshua Abram (1980) Renie Schapiro, M.P.H.

Deborah Blacker (1980)

Cheryl Cooper (1980) Research Assisants

Jeffrey Katz (1981) Michelle Leguay

Kathryn Kelly (1981) Jeffrey Stryker

Ruth Oratz (1981)

Henry S. Richardson (1981) Consultants

Jennifer Seton (1980) Bradford H. Gray, Ph.D. David Tancredi (1981) Dorle Vawter

William Thompson (1981)