Person
Robert A. Kehoe
American physician of Cincinnati who studied the men at the tetraethyl lead plant and, for decades, lead in ordinary people; Ethyl’s medical consultant.
- Also known as
- Robert Kehoe
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- worked at Ethyl Corporation (medical consultant) 1924–1959
- worked at Kettering Laboratory 1930–1960
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worked at
- Ethyl Corporation 1924–1959 medical consultant Primary record 123
- College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati 1925 Primary record 4
- Kettering Laboratory 1930–1960 Scholarship & press 5
involved in
- Surgeon General’s ad hoc committee on tetraethyl lead, 1959 attended the first day as Ethyl’s medical consultant Primary record 3
- Surgeon General’s conference on tetraethyl lead, 1925 reported on the men at the Dayton plant Primary record 4
authored
- The Metabolism of Lead in Man in Health and Disease 1961 Scholarship & press 5
Timeline 4 dates
- 1924–1959 Robert A. Kehoe worked at Ethyl Corporation
- 1925 Robert A. Kehoe worked at College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati
- 1930–1960 Robert A. Kehoe worked at Kettering Laboratory
- 1961 Robert A. Kehoe authored The Metabolism of Lead in Man in Health and Disease
Proof 5 sources
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Statement to the Committee of Enquiry on Lead Ethyl Petrol, by Graham Edgar, Director of Research, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (addendum of March 1928), Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (copy via ToxicDocs), 1928.
Self-published
to spend a part of his time carrying on, in co-operation with the Company, investigations on the whole subject of the Medical Aspects of Tetraethyl Lead
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The Secret History of Lead (Jamie Lincoln Kitman, The Nation, March 2000), The Nation, 20 Mar 2000.
Scholarship & press
In 1925 he was appointed chief medical consultant of the Ethyl Corporation and remained in the post until his retirement in 1958.
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Report, Surgeon General's Ad Hoc Committee on Tetraethyl Lead, January 8-9, 1959 (letter of March 30, 1959), U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (copy from the Kettering Laboratory files, via ToxicDocs), 30 Mar 1959.
Primary record
as medical consultant to the Ethyl Corporation
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Proceedings of a Conference to Determine Whether or Not There Is a Public Health Question in the Manufacture, Distribution, or Use of Tetraethyl Lead Gasoline (Public Health Bulletin No. 158), U.S. Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1925.
Primary record
Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
I do not regard the data which we have presented on men examined up to the present as conclusive in any way.
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The Harben Lectures, 1960: The Metabolism of Lead in Man in Health and Disease (Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, 1961), Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene (copy via ToxicDocs), 1961.
Scholarship & press
The substance of these lectures has been gleaned from investigations of the. past 30 years in The Kettering Laboratory
My deep thanks are due also to the industrial organizations that have financed these investigations
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