The Censor’s Hand

June 4, 2015

(Inside Higher Ed) – Many scholars complain that institutional review boards unreasonably delay or block studies involving human research subjects. A new book, The Censor’s Hand: The Misregulation of Human-Subject Research (MIT Press), doesn’t see IRBs as fixable, but as an inherently flawed system. The author — Carl E. Schneider is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan — responded via email to questions about his book’s themes.