Green report

The Green report was a report written by Andrew Conway Ivy, a medical researcher and vice president of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ivy was in charge of the medical school and its hospitals. The report justified testing malaria vaccines on Stateville Prison, Joliet, Illinois prisoners in the 1940s. Ivy mentioned the report in the 1946 Nuremberg Medical Trial for Nazi war criminals cite web
title =Historian examines U.S. ethics in Nuremberg Medical Trial tactics, Andrew Ivy, a medical researcher and vice president of the University of Illinois at Chicago, testifies for the prosecution at the 1946 Nuremberg Medical Trial.
work =Larry Bernard
url =http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/96/12.5.96/Nuremberg.html
accessdate=2006-09-05] .

Background

Malaria experiments in the Stateville Prison were publicized in the June 1945 edition of LIFE, entitled "Prisoner's Expose Themselves to Malaria".cite journal
first =Paul
last =Weindling
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year =2001
month =Spring
title =The Origins of Informed Consent: The International Scientific Commission on Medical War Crimes, and the Nuremberg Code
journal =Bulletin of the History of Medicine
volume =75
issue =1
pages =37–71
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url = http://www.geocities.com/travbailey/Paul_Weindling_The_Origins_of_Informed_Consent_Nuremburg_Code.htm
doi =10.1353/bhm.2001.0049]

When Ivy testified at the 1946 Nuremberg Medical Trial for Nazi war criminals, he misled the trial about the report, in order to strengthen the prosecution case: Ivy stated that the committee had debated and issued the report, when the committee had not met at that time. [Morenson, Jonathan D, (2001) "Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments On Humans" Routledge, NY. ISBN 0 415 92835 4] .

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Further reading

*cite journal
first =JM
last =Harkness
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year =1996 Nov 27;276(20):1672-5
month =November
title =Nuremberg and the issue of wartime experiments on US prisoners: the Green Committee
journal =The journal of the American Medical Association
volume =276
issue =20
pages = 1672–1675
id = ISSN 0098-7484
url =
doi =10.1001/jama.276.20.1672
*cite journal
first =Leonard A.
last =Temme
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year =2003
month =December
title =Ethics in Human Experimentation: the Two Military Physicians Who Helped Develop the Nuremberg Code
journal =Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine
volume =74
issue =12
pages = 1297–1300
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url =http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asma/asem/2003/00000074/00000012/art00014