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The Dragon's Tail
Discusses tolerance and protection standards, and looks at the Los Alamos and Trinity testing sites
Suffering Made Real
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 unleashed a force as mysterious as it was deadly—radioactivity. In 1946, the United States government created the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) to serve as a permanent agency in Japan with the official mission of studying the medical effects of radiation on the survivors. The next ten years saw the ABCC's most intensive research on the genetic effects of radiation, and up until 1974 the ABCC scientists published papers on the effects of radiation on aging, life span, fertility, and disease. Suffering Made Real is the first comprehensive history of the ABCC's research on how radiation affected the survivors of the...
The Plutonium Files
The Plutonium Files is the shocking exposé of the US government’s medical experiments on unwitting citizens during the Cold War. Americans recoiled when they learned of the brutal experiments conducted by Nazi doctors. But as the world was learning about those horrors, US scientists were injecting eighteen patients in hospital wards with plutonium, a deadly substance used to make the atomic bomb. The patients were given code numbers and went to their graves without knowing what had been done to them. In The Plutonium Files, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Eileen Welsome describes how she uncovered the identities of these patients and goes on to chronicle the web of deceit that enabled t...
Hearings
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Hearings
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Veterans Legislation, 1966
Considers. S. 2666, to recognize medical education as a valid function of VA Department of Medicine. S. 2748, to allow sharing of facilities by VA and other public and private hospitals. S. 3086, to authorize VA to enter into cooperative agreements with medical schools, hospitals, and research centers for purpose of sharing most advanced medical information, equipment, and facilities. H.R. 203, to set aside $100,000 per year for research on spinal cord injuries and diseases. H.R. 11631, to clarify VA responsibility with respect to training and education of health service personnel.
