FORCED RESEARCH
Abstract
To the Editor:—
The excerpt from Professor Barzun's book which appeared in The Journal, Jan. 30, page 457, suggests that the overt criticisms involved may be directed toward medical investigators as well as to their subjects of investigation, but when one analyzes the charges it becomes apparent that they cannot be leveled, with any significance, at most men in medicine. Surely the major motivations for pursuing medicine, patientdirected, academic, or...