Gene Therapy and AIDS: A Constitutional Politics Report

On May 11, 1993, the National Academy of Sciences hosted a workshop convened to address the scientific, medical, and social issues arising from attempts to enlist gene therapy experimentation in the fight against AIDS. The 100 participants represented a cross-section of federal governmental, industr...

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Published in:Politics and the life sciences 1993-08, Vol.12 (2), p.279-280
Main Author: Carmen, Ira H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Advisory Committees
AIDS
Bioethics
Community Participation
CONFERENCE REPORT
Ethical Review
Ethics
Ethics Committees
Ethics Committees, Research
Federal Government
Genes
Genetic Therapy
Government
Government Regulation
Human Experimentation
Humans
Politics
Public Policy
Research Personnel
Risk
Risk Assessment
Social Control, Formal
United States
United States Food and Drug Administration
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Summary:On May 11, 1993, the National Academy of Sciences hosted a workshop convened to address the scientific, medical, and social issues arising from attempts to enlist gene therapy experimentation in the fight against AIDS. The 100 participants represented a cross-section of federal governmental, industrial, academic, and research-practitioner expertise. I was invited presumably because I am a member of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), an arm of the National Institutes of Health, which oversees (in effect, licenses) human gene therapy protocols, and because I have recently published reports bearing on that policy process (Carmen, 1992, 1993).
ISSN:0730-9384
1471-5457
DOI:10.1017/S0730938400024230