Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE) USA. Final Report

Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995. — 929 p.Report of a US committee formed in 1994 under President B. Clinton to investigate the activities carried out in the 1940s - 1970s. in America radiation experiments on humans. Among the latter, attention is drawn to the fairly large-scale (127 people) direct irradiation of the testes in doses of up to 6 Gy per organ to “volunteers” from prisons in Washington and Oregon.Introduction The Atomic Century
Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective Overview
Government Standards for Human Experiments: The 1940s and 1950s
Postwar Professional Standards and Practices for Human Experiments
Government Standards for Human Experiments: The 1960s and 1970s
Ethics Standards in Retrospect
Case StudiesOverviewExperiments with Plutonium, Uranium, and Polonium
The AEC Program of Radioisotope Distribution
Nontherapeutic Research on Children
Total-Body Irradiation: Problems When Research and Treatment Are Intertwined
Prisoners: A Captive Research Population
Atomic Veterans: Human Experimentation in Connection with Bomb Tests
Intentional Releases: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy
Observational Data Gathering
Secrecy, Human Radiation Experiments, and Intentional Releases
Contemporary ProjectsOverviewCurrent Federal Policies Governing Human Subjects Research
Research Proposal Review Project
Subject Interview Study
Discussion of Part III
Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the FutureOverviewFindings
Recommendations
Statement By Committee Member Jay Katz
Official Documents
Executive Order
CharterSelected Bibliography
Public Comment Participants
A Citizen's Guide to the Nation's Archives: Where the Records Are and How to Find Them.