Content Description
Preferred Citation
Arrangement
Contributing Institution:
University of California, San Francisco Archives & Special Collections
Title: UCSF Human Radiation Committee records
source:
Filly, Roy A.
Creator:
University of California, San Francisco. Human Radiation Committee
Identifier/Call Number: AR.97.13
Physical Description:
6.25 Linear Feet
(5 cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1940-1995
Language of Material:
English
.
Content Description
Records include committee minutes, medical records, correspondence, testing records, publications and reports. Collection
is comprised of paper materials.
This collection deals with aspects of medical experimentation using human subjects. The use of plutonium injections is questioned
medically and ethically. A final report that summarized the committee's finding, entitled "REport of the UCSF Ad Hoc Fact
Finding Commitee on World War II Human Radiation Experiments," was presented in a press conference on February 23, 1995. It
was later amended in September 1995.
Preferred Citation
AR 97-13, UCSF Human Radiation Committee. UCSF Archives and Special Collections
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in original order and described at the folder level.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Radiation.
Ionizing radiation.
Filly, Roy A.