Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Interim ReportDIANE Publishing, 1998 - 140 pages Analyzes the scientific and ethical standards and procedures by which experiments on human subjects should be judged, both in the past and present. Assessments of the potential harms and benefits are also provided. Divided into six sections: areas of inquiry, the agency search process, outreach, information management, initial observations, and the next six months. Appendix includes a summary of agency records retrieved, meeting dates and locations, charter, and more. Terms and acronyms list. |
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Page 49 - Committee with such funds as may be necessary for the performance of its functions. Sec. 4.. General Provisions. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Executive order, the functions of the President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act that are applicable to the
Page 49 - (c) This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive branch and it is not intended to create any right, benefit, trust, or responsibility, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law
Page 56 - Committee members shall be compensated in accordance with federal law. Committee members may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, to the extent permitted by law for persons serving intermittently in the government service (5 USC §§ 5701-5707).
Page 1-5 - No agency within the Intelligence Community shall sponsor, contract for, or conduct research on human subjects except in accordance with guidelines issued by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The subject's informed consent shall be documented as required by those guidelines.
Page 49 - law for persons serving intermittently in the government service (5 USC 5701-5707). (c) To the extent permitted by law, and subject to the availability of appropriations, the Department of Energy shall
Page 1 - the Secretaries of Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs; the Attorney General; the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; and the Director of the Office of
Page 53 - the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Attorney General, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Director of the Office of
Page 47 - the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Attorney General, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Director of the Office
Page 1-2 - before the Subcommittee on Health of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee and the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
Page 1-5 - experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested third party, of each such human subject and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects for Biomédical and Behavioral Research.