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Gene Therapy and AIDS: A Constitutional Politics Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Ira H. Carmen
Ira H. Carmen*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, USA
*
Department of Political Science, 361 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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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).

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CONFERENCE REPORT
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , August 1993 , pp. 279 - 280
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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References

Carmen, I.H. (1992). “Debates, Divisions, and Decisions: Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) Authorization of the First Human Gene Transfer Experiments.” American Journal of Human Genetics 50:245–60.Google Scholar
Carmen, I.H. (1993). “Human Gene Therapy: A Biopolitical Overview and Analysis.” Human Gene Therapy 4:187–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar