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There were a few scientists, however, who, likethe late Medical School professor Shields Warren,were on the forefront of radiation experimentationon humans...
...Warren, who taught pathology at the MedicalSchool, was a pioneer in the study of thebiological effects of radiation and was famous forhis work on terminally ill cancer patients...
...even Warren, the nation's leader inunderstanding how to use radiation to cure humanills, proposed studies that would expose humantest subjects to dangerously high doses ofradioactive isotopes...
...Warren's involvement with the atomic-planeproject likely concerned that kind of radiationcontainment project...
...most of Warren's research involved givinglarge doses of radiation to terminally ill cancerpatients. In an article he authored in the May1949 American Journal of Public Health, Warrenwrote that "the development of the atomic bomb hasbeen felt as keenly as a contribution to thewelfare of mankind as in the programs for thedevelopment of weapons to destroy mankind...