Committee Final Research Articles

Remedies for human subjects of cold war research: recommendations of the Advisory Committee.

At a White House ceremony in October 1995, the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments presented its Final Report to President Bill Clinton. The 925-page report and the over 2,000 pages of supplemental volumes summarized eighteen months of investigative research, debate, and deliberation on historical and contemporary issues in human subjects research. The Advisory Committee's efforts were aided by unprecedented support from the highest levels of the executive branch, including the heads of eight cabinet-level agencies and their departments' resources. The presidentially appointed committee and its staff delved into long-forgotten Cold Warera government archives, listened to hours of public testimony, interviewed key players in the development of medical therapies and nuclear weapons, and studied ethical issues arising in today's research.In this article we focus on a critical, but narrowly defined, part of the Advisory Committee's Final Report: remedying harms or wrongs to subjects of human radiation experiments conducted or sponsored by the U.S. government between 1944 and 1974.

The Labour Legislation Review Committee's Final Report 1987

This article examines the recommendations in the Labour Legislation Review Committee's Final Report 1987and the corresponding proposed changes contained in Bills 60 and 53, as well as their impact and potential. Key new directions include mandated communications' committees for nearly all workers and greater third-party intervention into collective bargaining, particularly in construction. Should the assumptions upon which the legislative changes are based not be realized, their intent clearly need not be achieved.