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Article: Clinical Research
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CLINICAL RESEARCH
CLINICAL RESEARCH,
the controlled use of humans in medical experiments, dates from the Greek physician Galen (c. 129
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199), the founder of experimental medicine. Clinical research in the United States, however, rose in importance in the late nineteenth century following European advances in medical research. In 1884, disease investigators in the United States formed the American Clinical and Climatological Association, and in 1909, medical experimenters established the American Society of Clinical Investigation, which promoted correlation of clinical research with medical practice. For much of the twentieth century clinical researchers investigated the safety ...