Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy / Susan M. Reverby.

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Reverby, Susan M, 1946- [author.]

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TextPublisher number: MWT11718384Series: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780807898673
0807898678
9781469605326
1469605325

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Examining Tuskegee.DDC classification:

174.2/80976149 22

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R853.H8 R48 2009eb

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WC 160

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174.280976149
44.75

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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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-363) and index.

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