TY - BOOK AU - Reverby,Susan TI - Examining Tuskegee: the infamous syphilis study and its legacy T2 - The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture SN - 9780807833100 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - R853.H8 R48 2009 U1 - 174.2/80976149 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Tuskegee Syphilis Study KW - Human experimentation in medicine KW - Alabama KW - Macon County KW - History KW - Syphilis KW - Research N1 - 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" ER -