"MEMO FROM To: ™
J, LEDERBERG R. Glaser RC
GENETICS DEPARTMENT RO

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

AUG G 1969

 

Perhaps care (= caritas) should also
start at home.

Would we not be well off te make our
own start at carrying research-risk
insurance, at the very least for healthy
subjects who volunteer with no reference
at all to possible therapeutic benefits?

(I neticed a lot of Staff in the depart-
ment today had offered blood samples for
who knows what. The risks are substan-
tially zero but that's a good place to
begin. )

This would surely be an overhead-able |
iten.

The insurance would ge beyend the pos-
sible recovery for censequences ef neg-
ligence; in fact, it would be an effert

_ te get out ef that ball park al ;

0.

AUG 7 1969

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