Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy /
Reverby, Susan.
Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy / Susan M. Reverby. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. - xiii, 384 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture . - John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
9780807833100 (cloth : alk. paper) 080783310X (cloth : alk. paper)
2009016648
101503271 DNLM
Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Human experimentation in medicine--History.--Alabama--Macon County
Syphilis--Research--History.--Alabama--Macon County
R853.H8 / R48 2009
174.2/80976149
Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy / Susan M. Reverby. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. - xiii, 384 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture . - John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
9780807833100 (cloth : alk. paper) 080783310X (cloth : alk. paper)
2009016648
101503271 DNLM
Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Human experimentation in medicine--History.--Alabama--Macon County
Syphilis--Research--History.--Alabama--Macon County
R853.H8 / R48 2009
174.2/80976149