| Abstract: | Abstract It is hard to fault a befuddled public for wondering, as a perceptive cartoonist recently wondered (1), whether it is not high time for a federal commission on commissions. In very recent memory, we have had reports from the Education Commission, the Hunger Commission, and the Central American (“Kissinger”) Commission. Less visible, because less politically charged, were the reports of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, the last of which, issued in March 1983, marked the completion of that Commission's work. These documents represent a second effort at providing a national forum for public discourse about moral questions in health care and biomedical research. |
