Laura Stark
History professor at the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University and author of The Normals, researching the history of human-subject experiments and medical institutions.
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Apr 14, 2026 • 27min
The Normals | Episode 2
Ken Noss, a former NIH volunteer who interned at the Clinical Center, and Laura Stark, a history professor who studies human-subject experiments, discuss shifting sources of research volunteers in the 1960s. They cover expanding recruitment beyond peace churches, student interns and their motivations, changing ethics and record-keeping, and the move toward paid, short-term participants.
