Attachment 8

Minutes from the Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine of the 
Atomic Energy Commission Meeting held on September 8-9, 1950.







                              MINUTES

            ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

                       TWENTY-THIRD MEETING

                              Held at

                     ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

                         Washington, D. C.

                        September 8-9, 1950









Recess             Recess

                       The Committee adjourned for lunch at 12:30.  
                   p. m. and reconvened in Executive Session at 

                   1:30 p.m.
 
Human Experi-      Human Experimentation
mentation
                       A full discussion was held once again on the

                   problem of human experimentation.  The Committee  
                   felt that human experimentation at the present 

                   time is not indicated, that it would have       
                   serious repercussions from a public relations   
                   standpoint if undertaken by an agency that has  
                   to do a portion of its work in secret; and that  
                   adequate data can be obtained from animal       
                   experimentation, from the Los Alamos accidents,  
                   from certain observations which have been made  
                   by clinical radiologists, and from the studies  
                   at Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.

                       The Committee endorsed the action of the    
                   Director of Division of Biology and Medicine in  
                   not concurring in a program for human  

                   experimentation.

                   END OF EXECUTIVE SESSION 3:40 p. m.

Fifth Inter -      Fifth International Cancer Congress and Sixth
national Cancer    Congress of Radiology
Congress, Paris
France                Dr. Warren reported on his trip to Europe to
                   
                   Fifth International Cancer Congress in Paris and
Sixth Inter-
national          the Sixth International Congress of Radiology in
Congress of
Radiology         London.  He stated that from the standpoint of  





                  science the cancer congress was dissappointing. 
    
                  Dr. Warren was of the opinion that feeble work in
 
                  cancer research is being done on the Continent

                  with  ..............