State Budgets and Expiring Patents: A Perfect Storm for Revisiting Human Subjects Research With Prisoners?

April 14, 2011

Since the Institute of Medicine released its 2006 report that recommended loosening current restrictions on using prisoners as human research subjects, Biopolitical Times has paid attention to the shifting justifications used to make the widespread usage of prisoners in this manner – once common yet unthinkable for the past few decades – thinkable once again.   (Biopolitical Times)