2 pages AMA formatIRBs (institutional review boards)came into being in part as a response to pretty egregious violations of human dignity in the name of research (for example th Nazi medical experiments and the Tuskegee syphilis study). The Keystone project is a good case study in how a lot of the issuesIRBsdeal with are much more subtle. Ethical standards can be violated without researchers committing obvious atrocities. There are oftengreyareas that are open to interpretation. Read theGawandeandNosowskyarticles (links provided below). In your initial post discuss how the researchers might have done things differently so that the study could have been conducted without violating any ethical standards. Do you think the OHRP ultimately made the right call?2 pages AMA formatGawande:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/opinion/30gawande.html?_r=0Nosowsky:http://ora.research.ucla.edu/OHRPP/documents/policy/3/P3Nosowsky-QI_v_Research.pdf
