Call for Papers

Special Issue on the Clinical Research Enterprise: Call for Papers

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine invites manuscripts dealing with the historical development of clinical research in the post-World War II period (1945-present), with special relevance to the implications of historical processes for understanding the current clinical research enterprise in the United States and abroad. We invite historians, physicians, life and social scientists, epidemiologists and statisticians, and other scholars to respond. Papers might examine the role of prominent individual investigators; major clinical research hospitals (e.g., Boston City Hospital, Rockefeller Institute); specific clinical fields and specialties (e.g., oncology, infectious diseases); the role of professional societies (e.g., American Society of Clinical Investigation); changing conceptual models of clinical research; the role of randomized clinical trials and epidemiology in clinical research; the contribution of specific government agencies (e.g., NIH, CDC, FDA, DVA); or clinical research outside of the United States.An annotated bibliography on the historical literature of this period would also be welcome.

We intend to organize one or more issues of Perspectives to focus on these topics. Please submit the title, a 500-word abstract of the proposed paper, and its projected length to one or all of the editors listed below, and we will contact you about manuscript submission and a schedule for publication.

Please respond by 1 December 2003.

RICHARD A. RETTIG, Ph.D. <rettig@rand.org>
ALAN N. SCHECHTER, M.D. <aschecht@helix.nih.gov>
ROBERT L. PERLMAN, M.D., Ph.D. <rper@uchicago.edu>