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Part IV

Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Final Report

Publication Information

Letter from Ruth R. Faden, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

Advisory Committee Members and Staff

Acknowledgments

Documentary Note

Preface

Introduction - The Atomic Century

Part I - Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective

Overview

1.   Government Standards for Human Experiments: The 1940s and 1950s

2.   Postwar Professional Standards and Practices for Human Experiments

3.   Government Standards for Human Experiments: The 1960s and 1970s

4.   Ethics Standards in Retrospect

Part II - Case Studies

Overview

5.   Experiments with Plutonium, Uranium, and Polonium

6.   The AEC Program of Radioisotope Distribution

7.   Nontherapeutic Research on Children

8.   Total-Body Irradiation: Problems When Research and Treatment Are Intertwined

9.   Prisoners: A Captive Research Population

10.   Atomic Veterans: Human Experimentation in Connection with Bomb Tests

11.   Intentional Releases: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy

12.   Observational Data Gathering

13.   Secrecy, Human Radiation Experiments, and Intentional Releases

Part III - Contemporary Projects

Overview

14.   Current Federal Policies Governing Human Subjects Research

15.   Research Proposal Review Project

16.   Subject Interview Study

Part IV - Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future

Overview

17.   Findings

18.   Recommendations

Statement By Committee Member Jay Katz

Official Documents

Executive Order

Charter

Appendices

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Public Comment Participants

A Citizen's Guide to the Nation's Archives: Where the Records Are and How to Find Them