Examining Tuskegee : The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy /

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The forty-year "Tuskegee" Syphilis Study has become the great metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. Reverby offers a comprehensive analysis of the notorious study of untreated syphilis, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reverby, Susan M., 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
experimentation sur les êtres humains > syphilis > Alabama (Etats-Unis, etat) > 1930 > 1970.
AIDS.
Experimentele geneeskunde.
Syfilis.
Tuskegee-Syphilis-Studie
Medizinische Ethik
Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Syphilis > Research.
Human experimentation in medicine.
Bioethics.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Bioethique.
Syphilis > Recherche > Alabama > Macon > Histoire.
Experimentation humaine en medecine > Alabama > Macon > Histoire.
Étude de Tuskegee sur la syphilis.
Universities > history
United States Government Agencies > history
Race Relations
Informed Consent > history
Human Experimentation > history
Bioethics
African Americans > history
Syphilis > history
1900s
Humans
Syphilis > Research > Alabama > Macon County > History.
Human experimentation in medicine > Alabama > Macon County > History.
Alabama.
Alabama > Macon County.
History.
Maps.
Internet Resources.
Historical Works.
Fulltext.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."

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