The purpose of the anthology is to provide timely, practical analysis and advice for people engaged in clinical research trials to advance medical knowledge and its application, for those who support such efforts, and for participants in clinical trials. Contributors from both law and medicine consider such aspects as contract issues, process and monitoring issues in billing, fraud and abuse, national and international concerns about using and disclosing identifiable information in clinical research, key compliance issues for institutional review boards, bias and conflicts of interest, and legal issues in the conduct of multinational clinical trials by US entities. Annotation: 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).