Examining Tuskegee the infamous syphilis study and its legacy

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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...

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Main Author: Reverby, Susan M., 1946-
Corporate Author: EBSCO Publishing (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
Tuskegee Institute.
United States. > Public Health Service.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Human experimentation in medicine > Alabama > Macon County > History.
Syphilis > Research > Alabama > Macon County > History.
Syphilis > history.
Black or African American > history.
History, 20th Century.
Human Experimentation > history.
Informed Consent > history.
United States Government Agencies > history.
Universities > history.
Consent.
Informed consent.
Electronic books.
Table of 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."

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