X-Message-Number: 21386
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:11:42 -0000
Subject: "patients" or "subjects" or "test subjects"?
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Referring to Dr Lemler's comment (via alcor news) about the media questioning 
the use of the word "patient" for cryopreserved cryonicists, I wonder if the 
word "subject" or the phrase "test subject" may be useful or appropriate.

When arguing with cryonics naysayers on the net, I often call cryonics "an 
experiment" with a control and an experimental group. Scientists conducting 
experiments, and perhaps even medical experiments, often refer to the members 
of the experimental (and perhaps control) group as "subjects" or "test 
subjects."  Am I correct?

Perhaps this nomenclature may prove useful.

--randy

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