ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS BRIEFING BOOK (MEETING OF APRIL 21-22, 1994) TABLE OF CONTENTS TAB 1 Agenda Federal Register Notice of Meeting TAB 2 Executive Order 12891 (establishes Advisory Committee) Advisory Committee Charter Presidential Memorandum: Review of Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects. TAB 3 Advisory Committee Roster Advisory Committee Staff Roster (as of April 13) Advisory Committee Staff Bios TAB 4 Research Ethics: Milestones in Research Ethics U.S. v. Karl Brandt (excerpt), from Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Vol. II, Nuremberg, October 1946-April 1949. Nuremberg Code Declaration of Helsinki Henry K. Beecher, "Ethics and Clinical Research1" New England Journal of Medicine 274:1354-60; 1966 Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel (Washington, DC, 1973) The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (Washington, DC, 1978) Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects Protection of Human Subjects--Department of Health and Human Services (Title 45 Code of Federal Regulations part 46) TAB 5 Radiation: Department of Health and Human Services "Benefits of Radiation and Radiation Experiments" Henry D. Royal, "The Effects of Low Levels of Radiation" William R. Hendee, "Public Perception of Radiation Risks," Radiation & Society, in press. TAB 6 Agency Updates on Records Retrieval Process TAB 7 Chronology of Congressional Hearings on Radiation Experiments American Nuclear Guinea Pigs: Three Decades of Radiation Experiments on US Citizens, Report prepared by the Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, US House of Representatives, November 1986 ("Markey Report") U.S. General Accounting Office, Examples of Post World War II Radiation Releases at US Nuclear Sites, (Washington, DC: November 1993) TAB 8 Administrative Materials Materials on Federal Advisory Committee Act Pocket: Security Clearance Packet