Kind and Usual Punishment by Jessica Mitford

Today, however, rhesus macaques can no longer be imported from India.

Through the mid-1970s, the rhesus macaque could be readily imported from India, and the scientific community grew dependent on access to this laboratory animal. scientists are facing a shortage of nonhuman primates available for biomedical studies. The article, Demands for Rhesus Monkeys in Biomedical Research: A Workshop Report, stated, '. and much cheaper than chimpanzees.' Thirty years later in 2003, the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR), which includes among its supporters many pharmaceutical companies and governmental agencies, reported the following dilemma in the Institute's journal. In her 1973 book, Kind and Usual Punishment, Jessica Mitford said a researcher had confided to her that prisoners are '. All research studies must ensure minimal risk to the incarcerated test subjects. The current regulations restrict researchers to four basic categories of research when using prisoner test subjects: 1) studies involving causes and effects of incarceration, 2) the prison as an institutional structure, 3) conditions affecting prisoners as a class, and 4) research on practices that have the intent and reasonable probability of improving the well-being of the subject. 46, Subpart C (Research and Prisoners), are intended to protect prisoners as subjects in biomedical and behavioral research. The IOM's 'definition of simplicity' is approximately two hundred pages long while the current regulations, included in the report, account for approximately four pages of the same font size, type and page length.Īn IOM Committee was formed in 2005 to investigate possible changes to the federal policies regarding biomedical research in prisons. In June 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report on simplifying the current federal regulations for conducting medical research in prisons, which included recommendations to increase the use of prisoners as test subjects. 'It is the duty of the doctor to remain the protector of the life and health of that person on whom clinical research is being carried out.' Declaration of Helsinki

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Kind and Usual Punishment by Jessica Mitford