The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-363) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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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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22573/ctt61sfq
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F629D16E-FA3F-4DA6-81B9-454B36C82391
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Title
Examining Tuskegee.
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9780807833100
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Human experimentation in medicine-- Alabama-- Macon County-- History.
Syphilis-- Research-- Alabama-- Macon County-- History.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
1900s
African Americans-- history.
Bioethics.
Human Experimentation-- history.
Humans.
Informed Consent-- history.
Race Relations.
Syphilis-- history.
United States Government Agencies-- history.
Universities-- history.
AIDS.
expérimentation sur les êtres humains-- syphilis-- Alabama (Etats-Unis, état)-- 1930-- 1970.