| Descript |
1 online resource (xiii, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map. |
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text |
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computer |
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online resource |
| Series |
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture |
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John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-363) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : race, medical uncertainty, and American culture -- Historical contingencies : Tuskegee Institute, the Public Health Service, and syphilis -- Planned, plotted, & official : the study begins -- Almost undone : the study continues -- What makes it stop? -- Testimony : the public story in the 1970s -- What happened to the men & their families? -- Why & wherefore : the Public Health Service doctors -- Triage & "powerful sympathizing" : Eugene H. Dibble, Jr -- The best care : Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie -- Bioethics, history, & the study as gospel -- The court of imagination -- The political spectacle of blame & apology -- Epilogue : the difficulties of treating racism with "Tuskegee." |
| Summary |
The forty-year "Tuskegee" Syphilis Study has become the great metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. Reverby offers a comprehensive analysis of the notorious study of untreated syphilis, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s and involved hundreds of African American men, most of whom were told by doctors from the U.S. Public Health Service that they were being treated, not just watched, for their late-stage syphilis. Reverby examines the study and its aftermath from multiple perspectives to explain wh. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Available through EBSCO. |
| Access |
University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login on and off-campus. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
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Human experimentation in medicine -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
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Syphilis -- Research -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
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| Add Author |
EBSCO Publishing (Firm)
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| Related To |
Print version: Reverby, Susan. Examining Tuskegee. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807833100 (DLC) 2009016648 (OCoLC)319855793
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| ISBN |
9781469605326 (electronic bk.) |
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1469605325 (electronic bk.) |
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