Human Subjects in Weapons Research

Threats to the common good. Biochemical weapons and human subjects research.

Human research subjects as human research workers.

Biomedical research involving human subjects has traditionally been treated as a unique endeavor, presenting special risks and demanding special protections. But in several ways, the regulatory scheme governing human subjects research is counter-intuitively less protective than the labor and employment laws applicable to many workers. This Article relies on analogical and legal reasoning to dem...

Terahertz imaging of subjects with concealed weapons

In response to the growing interest in developing terahertz imaging systems for concealed weapons detection, the Submillimeter-Wave Technology Laboratory (STL) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell has produced full-body terahertz imagery using coherent active radar measurement techniques. The proof-of-principle results were readily obtained utilizing the compact radar range resources at ST...

Conflict of interest in human subjects research.

Policy: The NJIT Institutional Review Board (IRB) is committed to assuring that researchers fulfill the public’s trust in the research enterprise by putting the welfare of research participants ahead of the interests of the institution or of the researcher’s personal financial interests. Financial interests are not prohibited, and not all financial interests cause conflicts of interest or affec...

Research on human subjects in the JEM

A little more than a year ago, we published an editorial calling for papers describing research on human subjects (1). Research on human subjects is becoming more feasible because of advances in methodology, and investigations on human subjects are needed to advance the areas of human physiology and disease covered by the Journal. Patient-oriented research in particular is often perceived as be...