Smoking and health : report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.

  • United States. Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health
Date:
[1964?]
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Credit: Smoking and health : report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with interests and competence in the broad range of medical sciences and with capacity to evaluate the elements and factors in the complex relation- ship between tobacco smoking and health. During the next month, these lists were screened by the representatives of organizations present at the July 27 meeting. Any organization could veto any of the names on the list, no reasons being required. Particular care was taken to eliminate the names of any persons who had taken a public position on the questions at issue. From the final list of names the Surgeon General selected ten men who agreed to serve on the Phase I committee, which was named The Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. The com- mittee members, their positions, and their fields of competence are: Stanhope Bayne-Jones, M.D., LL.d., (Retired), Former Dean, Yale School of Medicine (1935-40), former President, Joint Administrative Board, Cor- nell University, New York Hospital Medical Center (1947-52); former President, Society of American Bacteriologists (1929), and American Society of Pathology and Bacteriology (1940). Field: Nature and Causation of Disease in Human Populations. Dr. Bayne-Jones served also as a special consultant to the Committee staff. Walter J. Burdette, M.D., Ph. D., Head of Department of Surgery, Uni- versity of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City. Fields: Clinical & Experimental Surgery; Genetics. William G. Cochran, M.A., Professor of Statistics, Harvard University. Field: Mathematical: Statistics, with Special Application to Biological Problems. Emmanuel Farber, M.D., Ph. D., Chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh. Field: Experimental and Clinical Pathology. Louis F. Fieser, Ph. D., Sheldon Emory, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Harvard University. Field: Chemistry of Carcinogenic Hydrocarbons. Jacob Furth, M.D., Professor of Pathology, Columbia University, and Director of Pathology Laboratories, Francis Delafield Hospital, New York, N.Y. Field: Cancer Biology. John B. Hickam, M.D., Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine, Uni- versity of Indiana, Indianapolis. Fields: Internal Medicine, Physiology of Cardiopulmonary Disease. Charles LeMaistre, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and Medical Director, Woodlawn Hos- pital, Dallas, Texas. Fields: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Preventive Medicine. Leonard M. Schuman, M.D., Professor of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis. Field: Health and Its Relationship to the Total Environment. Maurice H. Seevers, M.D., Ph. D., Chairman, Department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Field: Pharmacology of Anesthesia and Habit-Forming Drugs. Chairman: Luther L. Terry, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service.
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