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Title: Charles Patrick Carroll papers
Date (inclusive): 1809-1999
Collection Number: 2001C76
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and German
Physical Description:
73 manuscript boxes
(29.2 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Carroll, Charles Patrick
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2001.
[Identification of item], Charles Patrick Carroll papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
American Episcopalian priest.
| 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 |
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Nuremberg Medical Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1947
Genocide
Eugenics
Euthanasia
Involuntary sterilization
Abortion
Assisted suicide
Medical ethics