Charles Patrick Carroll papers, 1809-1999

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Summary

Creators:
Carroll, Charles Patrick
Abstract:
Correspondence, notes, conference papers, and printed matter, relating to medical ethics, and to medical, legal, moral and theological aspects of euthanasia, sterilization, abortion, assisted suicide, and related issues. Includes copies of transcripts of war crime trials of Nazi doctors at Nuremberg.
Extent:
73 manuscript boxes (29.2 Linear Feet)
Language:
In English and German
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Charles Patrick Carroll papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains correspondence, notes, conference papers, and printed matter, relating to medical ethics, euthanasia, sterilization, abortion, assisted suicide, and related issues. The bulk of the papers consists of research materials Carroll collected from 1972-2002 on German medicine, euthanasia, and the Holocaust.

Biographical / historical:

American Episcopalian priest.

Date Event
1916
Born, Kansas City, Missouri
1937-1938
Student, Berlin, Germany
1939
B.A., Yale University
1945-1947
Teaching fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University
1947-1948
Official observer, U.S. vs. Karl Brandt, et al.
1947-1948
Assistant to the Director of the Civil Administration Division, Office of Military Government, United States
1951
Ordained, Episcopal Church
1967-1971
Protestant Chaplain, University of California-San Francisco Medical Center
1972
Author, "Medicine without an Ethic," Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society
1972-2002
Researched German medicine from 1895-1945
1985
Board of Advisors, National Organization of Episcopalians for Life
1994
Author, "Judeo-Christian View of Man's Nature Confirmed at Auschwitz," Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
1995
Author, "Nuremberg Judgment and Challenge: The Rediscovery of the Law above the Statutory," Journal of Legal Studies
2004
Died, Colorado
Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2001.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Charles Patrick Carroll papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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