Book ID: CBB442304232

Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (2000)

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Reverby, Susan M. (Editor)


University of North Carolina Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: 664 pp.
Language: English

Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research--the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for "bad blood," the nearly four hundred men with late-stage syphilis and two hundred disease-free men who served as controls were kept away from appropriate treatment and plied instead with placebos, nursing visits, and the promise of decent burials. Despite the publication of more than a dozen reports in respected medical and public health journals, the study continued for forty years, until extensive media coverage finally brought the experiment to wider public knowledge and forced its end.This edited volume gathers articles, contemporary newspaper accounts, selections from reports and letters, reconsiderations of the study by many of its principal actors, and works of fiction, drama, and poetry to tell the Tuskegee story as never before. Together, these pieces illuminate the ethical issues at play from a remarkable breadth of perspectives and offer an unparalleled look at how the study has been understood over time.

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Review Lombardo, P. A. (2001) Review of "Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 616). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wynia, Matthew K.
Washington, Harriet A.
Savitt, Todd Lee
Olakanmi, Ololade
Jacobs, Elizabeth A.
Hoover, Eddie
Concepts
African Americans and science
African Americans
Medicine and race
Science and race
Public health
Physicians; doctors
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Alabama (U.S.)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Africa
Georgia (U.S.)
Central America
Institutions
Tuskegee Veterans Administration Medical Center
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