Inventory of the UCSF Human Radiation Committee AR.97.13

Finding aid created by Kelsi Evans.

University of California, San Francisco Archives & Special Collections

2014-10-16

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Room 524

San Francisco, CA 94143-0840

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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.

carton 1-5, folder 1

Correspondence