United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Human Radiation Experiments.
Human Radiation Studies: Remembering the Early Years, 1994.
Oral history interviews with 30 scientists possessing firsthand knowledge of human radiation experimentation and therapy that occurred during World War II and the Cold War, or the context in which these experiments and therapies took place. The interviewers sought to enrich the documentary record, elicit missing information, and provide the researchers a venue in which to share their thoughts on those decisions and respond to the criticisms the decisions have engendered. Interview subjects are: William J. Blair (health physicist), Waldo E. Cohn (biochemist), Patricia Wallace Durbin, Merril Eisenbud, Hymer L. Friedell (radiologist), Carl C. Gamertsfel der (health physicist), John W. Gofman, Marvin Goldman (radiation biologist), Julie Langham Grilly, Katherine A. Lathrop (medical physicist) and Paul V. Harper (physician), John W. Healy, Karl F. Hubner (hematologist), Henry I. Kohn (radiologist), Clarence Lushbaugh (pathologist), Constantine Maletskos (health physicist), Earl R. Miller (radiologist), Karl Z. Morgan (health physicist), William Moss (biochemist), Nello Pace (physiologist), Don Petersen (cell biologist), Chet Richmond (radiobiologist), James Robertson (physician), Robert Rowland (biophysicist), Cornelius Tobias (biophysicist), John Totter (biochemist), Helen Vodopick (oncologist), George Voelz, and Baird G. Whaley (Donner Lab. Administrator).
In December 1993, U.S. Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary announced her Openness Initiative. As part of this initiative, the U.S. Dept. of Energy undertook an effort to identify and catalog historical documents on radiation experiments that had used human subjects. The Office of Human Radiation Experiments coordinated the Department's search. It was soon discovered that the effort to uncover the complete story would be hampered by the passage of time, the state of existing records, and the fact that some decision making processes were never documented in written form. Accordingly, in September 1994 the Office of Human Radiation Experiments, in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, launched an oral history project.
Radiotherapy.
Radiation vicitms.
Radiation -- Physiological effect -- Therapeutic use.
Radiation -- Physiological effect -- Experiments.
Cold War -- Experiments.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Experiments.
Interviews. aat
Blair, William J.
Cohn, Waldo E.
Durbin, Patricia Wallace.
Eisenbud, Merril,
Friedell, Hymer L.
Gamertsfel, Carl C.
Gofman, John W.
Goldman, Marvin.
Grilly, Julie Langham.
Harper, Paul V.
Healy, John W.
Hubner, Karl F.
Kohn, Henry I.
Lathrop, Katherine Austin.
Lushbaugh, Clarence.
Maletskos, Constantine.
Miller, Earl R.
Morgan, K. Z. (Karl Ziegler), 1908-
Moss, William.
Pace, Nello.
Petersen, Don.
Richmond, Chet.
Robertson, James.
Rowland, Robert.
Tobias, Cornelius A.
Totter, John.
Vodopick, Helen.
Voelz, George.
Whaley, Baird G.
AIP-ICOS
United States. Department of Energy. Historical Research Center, Germantown, MD 20874, USA