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Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy
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- Creator
- Susan M. Reverby
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0807898678, 146960972X, 9781469605326, 9780807833100, 080783310X, 9780807898673, 1469605325
- OCLC
- ocn496114416, ocn319855793
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-363) 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"
Subjects
- Tuskegee Institute.
- United States. Public Health Service
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
- Human experimentation in medicine -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
- Syphilis -- Research -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
- Syphilis -- history.
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- Black or African American -- history.
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- History, 20th Century.
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- Human Experimentation -- history.
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- Informed Consent -- history.
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- United States Government Agencies -- history.
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- Universities -- history.
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