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Author Reverby, Susan.
Title Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy / Susan M. Reverby.
Publisher Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Central Linn Henley Southern  R853.H8 R48 2009    LIBRARY USE ONLY
 Central Social Sciences  174.2 ReveS 2009    CHECK SHELF
 Five Points West Adult  174.2 ReveS 2009    CHECK SHELF
 Hoover Nonfiction  174.28 REV    CHECK SHELF

Description xiii, 384 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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".
ISBN 9780807833100 (cloth : alk. paper)
080783310X (cloth : alk. paper)
Author Reverby, Susan.
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subject Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
Syphilis -- Research -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
Tuskegee Institute.
United States. Public Health Service.
Syphilis -- history.
African Americans -- history.
History, 20th Century.
Human Experimentation -- history.
Informed Consent -- history.
United States Government Agencies -- history.
Universities -- history.
Description xiii, 384 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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".
ISBN 9780807833100 (cloth : alk. paper)
080783310X (cloth : alk. paper)
Author Reverby, Susan.
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subject Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
Syphilis -- Research -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
Tuskegee Institute.
United States. Public Health Service.
Syphilis -- history.
African Americans -- history.
History, 20th Century.
Human Experimentation -- history.
Informed Consent -- history.
United States Government Agencies -- history.
Universities -- history.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
 Central Linn Henley Southern  R853.H8 R48 2009    LIBRARY USE ONLY
 Central Social Sciences  174.2 ReveS 2009    CHECK SHELF
 Five Points West Adult  174.2 ReveS 2009    CHECK SHELF
 Hoover Nonfiction  174.28 REV    CHECK SHELF

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