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Short Reviews of Selected Books and Articles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2021

Jay Alexander Gold*
Affiliation:
New York University; Harvard University; Medical Genetics Center, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; American Journal of Law & Medicine

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Medicolegal Reference Library
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 1980

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References

1 Letter to the editor from the Committee on Recombinant DNA Molecules, Assembly of Life Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 185 SCIENCE 303 (1974).Google Scholar

2 Berg, , Baltimore, , Brenner, , Roblin, & Singer, , Summary Statement of the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules, 72 PROC. NAT'L ACAD. SCI. USA 1981, 1983 (1975).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 “Biological containment” involves the use in experimentation of organisms that cannot survive or replicate outside of the laboratory.

4 NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules, 45 Fed. Reg. 6724(1980).

5 The annotated bibliography in RECOMBINANT DNA: SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND POLITICS 337-64 is probably the best available, though it is incomplete and already dated.

6 Swazey, , Sorenson, & Wong, , Risks and Benefits, Rights and Responsibilities: A History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy, 51 So. CAL. L. REV. 1019 (1978).Google Scholar

7 Robertson, , The Scientist's Right to Research: A Constitutional Analysis, 51 So. CAL. L. REV. 1203 (1978).Google Scholar

8 Id. at 1204.

9 Id.

10 Spece, , A Purposive Analysis of Constitutional Standards of Judicial Review and a Practical Assessment of the Constitutionality of Regulating Recombinant DNA Research, 51 So. CAL. L. REV. 1281 (1978).Google Scholar

11 Id. at 1283.

12 Id. at 1351.

13 Id.

14 Friedman, , Health Hazards Associated with Recombinant DNA Technology: Should Congress Impose Liability Without Fault?, 51 So. CAL. L. REV. 1355 (1978).Google Scholar

15 Id. at 1359.

16 Dworkin, Biocatastrophe and the Law: Legal Aspects of Recombinant DNA Research, in THE RECOMBINANT DNA DEBATE 219 (D. Jackson & S. Stich eds. 1979).

17 Michael, Who Decides Who Decides: Some Dilemmas and Other Hopes, id. at 261.

18 Emerson, The Constitution and Regulation of Research, in REGULATION OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: SOCIETAL CONCERNS WITH RESEARCH 129, 132 (K. Wulff ed. 1979).

19 Lappé, & Martin, , The Place of the Public in the Conduct of Science, 51 So. CAL. L. REV. 1535 (1978).Google Scholar

20 Buckley v. Valco, 424 U.S. 1 (1976).

21 Emerson, supra note 18.

22 Id. at 133.

23 Application of this principle would prevent the U.S. government from suppressing the dissemination of information about nuclear explosives, as it recently attempted to do in United States v. Progressive, 467 F. Supp. 990 (D. Wis. 1979).

24 This case is presented in “Please Let Me Die,” a videotape prepared by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch, at Galveston.

25 See Lake v. Cameron, 364 F.2d 657 (D.C. Cir. 1966), and the material in J. KATZ, J. GOLDSTEIN & A. DERSHOWITZ, PSYCHOANALYSIS, PSYCHIATRY AND LAW 552-54 (1967).

26 BURT, TAKING CARE OF STRANGERS 118-19 (1979).

27 Id. at 129.

28 Id. at 132.

29 Id. at 140.

30 See J.-P. SARTRE, BEING AND NOTHINGNESS (1956). See also W. KAUFMANN, WITHOUT GUILT AND JUSTICE: FROM DECIDOPHOBIA TO AUTONOMY (1973).