Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy
Susan M. Reverby (Author)
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
eBook, English, 2009
The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2009
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1 online resource (xiii, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
9780807898673, 9781469605326, 0807898678, 1469605325
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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."
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