Henry Knowles Beecher and the Development of Informed Consent in Anesthesia Research

(Kopp) Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Medicine.Received from the Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Submitted for publication September 28, 1998. Accepted for publication February 4, 1999. Supported by a 1995 Paul M. Wood Fellowship Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Park Ridge, Illinois. Presented at the 1998 Anesthesia History Association Meeting, May 7, 1998, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Address reprint requests to Dr. Kopp: Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 7010, 223 Burnett-Womack Building, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7010. Address electronic mail to: vkopp@aims.unc.edu