INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON REORGANIZATION AND
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

45783

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH STUDY

(PURSUANT TO S. RES. 347, 85TH CONG., S. RES. 42, AND
S. RES. 255, 86TH CONG.)

JULY 9 AND 16, 1959

PART I

(INCLUDES TRANSCRIPT OF CONFERENCES IN EUROPE,
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1958)

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UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1960

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Letter from Paul Dudley White, M.D., and joint report of the Research

and Social Committees, International Society of Cardiology, sessions in

Brussels, September 1958.

Letter from Ancel Keys, Ph. D., director, Laboratory of Physiological

Hygiene, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Memorandum on subcommittee's approach in its study of international

health...

Statement by Albert Sabin, M.D., on medical and hygienic problems in

the development of the tropics before the Division of Medical Sciences,

National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council.

Letter from Jonas Salk, M.D., director, Virus Research Laboratory, De-

partment of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh....

Chronology of official policy statements on increased international scientific

cooperation for health..

Article, "Major Issues of Aging,” by Edward L. Bortz, M.D., and Walter

M. Bortz II, M.D., in “G.P.," July 1959..

Statement by George N. Papanicolaou, M.D., on international work in

cytology.

Supplementary statement by Margaret A. Mead, Ph. D., on the use now

being made of the human and behavioral sciences in Government

operations

Statement by William Lennox, M.D., on epilepsy research...

Statement by Senator Hubert H. Humphrey on information to be printed

in appendix volume......

The Toll of Disease and Accidents in the United States, chart prepared by

the National Health Education Committee..

Text of Senate Resolution 347, 85th Congress, authorizing study of inter-

national health..

Statement by James A. Shannon, M.D., on National Institutes of Health

and international medical research___