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

  • Reverby, Susan M., 1946-
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xiii, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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    History of Medicine
    TR.667.AA9

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  • 9780807833100
  • 080783310X