Examining Tuskegee [electronic resource] : the infamous syphilis study and its legacy / Susan M. Reverby.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Main Author:	Reverby, Susan
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Series:	John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:	Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Human experimentation in medicine > Alabama > Macon County > History. Syphilis > Research > Alabama > Macon County > History.
Online Access:	ProQuest Ebook Central: 2009 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications: 2009 (Hein Online) ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2009 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice: 2009 (Hein Online) EBSCO eBooks: 2009 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2009 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

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".