Remarks by President William J. Clinton
Introduction: The Atomic Century
I. Ethics of Human Subjects Research: A Historical Perspective
1. Government Standards for Human Experiments: The 1940's and 1950's
2. Postwar Professional Standards and Practice for Human Experiments
3. Government Standards for Human Experiments: The 1960s and 1970s
4. Ethics Standards in Retrospect
II. Case Studies
5. Experiments with Plutonium, Uranium, and Polonium
6. The AEC Program of Radioisotope Distribution
7. Nontherapeutic Research on Children
8. Total-Body Irradiation: Problems When Research and Treatment Are Intertwined
9. Prisoners: A Captive Research Population
10. Atomic Veterans: Human Experimentation in Connection with Bomb Tests
11. Intentional Releases: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy
12. Observational Data Gathering
13. Secrecy, Human Radiation Experiments, and Intentional Releases
III. Contemporary Projects
14. Current Federal Policies Governing Human Subjects Research
15. Research Proposal Review Project
16. Subject Interview Study
IV. Coming to Terms with the Past, Looking Ahead to the Future
17. Findings
18. Recommendations
Official Documents
Appendices
Index