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Excerpt from Radiation Research in the Va Involving Human Subjects: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session; February 8, 1994 Secretary Brown, we welcome you as well as Dr. Susan Mather whom we have seen all over the country, and also Mary Lou Keen er, who is the General Counsel. We would like to know the progress VA has made in uncovering and securing records about the use of radiation in human subjects which took place in the VA hospitals beginning in the 1940's. We also have VA physicians who actually performed some of the medi cal research which has been the subject of so much medical atten tion in the last 2 months. In addition, we have convened a panel of experts who were not involved in research and who are very knowledgeable about the risk of radiation to humans or about the ethics of using humans in medical research. Now, to my colleagues, the purpose of our hearing is to learn what happened and to make this information available to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.