HISC 116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nuremberg Code, Acute Radiation Syndrome, Human Subject Research
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Health effects starts becoming apparent in 1920s: dial painters case 1927: workers painted glow-in-the-dark numerals on clocks, licked paintbrushes to keep them pointed, started getting cases of mouth and jaw cancer and necrosis. Team of scientists and doctors that assessed health risks of radioactive materials. Secrecy at oak ridge: human experimentation of weapons-grade radiation conducted during manhattan project. Atomic energy commission: largest supplier of radioisotopes. Nuremberg code in the aec: the military was the one place where the proceedings at nuremberg were most likely to have been followed, the top brass kept referring to the code in their correspondence. Charles wilson, 1953: secretary of defense, circulated memo about nuremberg code, did not have much of an impact on the conduct of the experiments. Tracer research: radioactive tags on molecules to see how they circulate through the body, detectors used to follow molecules. Terminal patients injected with radioactive materials whose dangers are not yet well known.
