Records. Council on Foods and Nutrition-Council on Medical Physics (inclusive), 1929-1974.

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Records. Council on Foods and Nutrition-Council on Medical Physics (inclusive), 1929-1974.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning the Council on Foods and Nutrition, an AMA committee dealing with new foods, nutrition, and nutritional deficiencies in the general population, 1967-1974; Council on Industrial Health, an AMA committee dealing with medicine in industrial plants, including new drugs used in industrial medicine, 1946-1962; Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, an AMA committee dealing with these issues, including fake medical schools and hospitals offering fraudulent treatments, 1929-1973; and Council on Medical Physics, an AMA committee dealing with medical devices, some of which were quackish, 1958-1963.

7 folders.

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