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Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy / Susan M. Reverby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reverby, Susan.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Alabama--Macon County--History.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Syphilis--Research--Alabama--Macon County--History.
- Syphilis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (413 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The forty-year ""Tuskegee"" Syphilis Study has become the American metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. The subject of histories, films, rumors, and political slogans, it received an official federal apology from President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony. Susan M. Reverby offers a comprehensive analysis of the notorious study of untreated syphilis, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930's through the 1970's. The study involved hundreds of African American men, most of whom were told by doctors from the U.S.
- 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 1970's
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908849-5-4
- 979-88-9313-410-0
- 1-4696-0532-5
- 0-8078-9867-8
- OCLC:
- 496114416
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