Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reverby, Susan M., 1946- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Series:	John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. UNC Press law publications. Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:	Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Human experimentation in medicine > Alabama > Macon County > History. Syphilis > Research > Alabama > Macon County > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Race, medical uncertainty, and American culture
Historical contingencies : Tuskegee Institute, the Public Health Service, and syphilis
Planned, plotted, and 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 and their families?
Why and wherefore: the Public Health Service doctors
Triage and "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".