Publish Hospital Ethics Committee Opinions

I was just rereading Guido Calabresi's "Reflections on Medical Experimentation in Humans."  (98 Daedalus 387).  One of his suggestions for oversight over medical research is that ethics committees (this is 1969, before the entity or term "IRB" had developed) publish their opinions.  I love this idea and plan to develop it.  

Calabresi identifies three main benefits.  First, publication will ensure that the recommendations are better thought out.  Second, publication will subject ethics committee opinions to open criticism.  That will benefit other writers, helping to improve their thinking and analysis.  Third, publication will help assure that ethics committees stay in touch with what society thinks appropriate.  

The Ontario CCB, of course, already publishes many of its opinions.  But almost no U.S. ethics committee regularly publishes its cases.  I really hope I can find some time, this winter, to develop this idea.