Human subjects research regulation: perspectives on the future.

“Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future” provides a broadranging discussion of issues raised by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) 2011 Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) to revise the Common Rule. Three years on, it’s unclear whether this effort to revise the Common Rule is still alive, but this volume confirms that there are good reasons to update the Common Rule in fundamental ways. As Luke Dunphy, the noted social commentator, would ask, can we make the impossible unimpossible?