Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy / Susan M. Reverby.
Series: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 384 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780807833100 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080783310X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 174.2/80976149 22
- R853.H8 R48 2009
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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".