Examining Tuskegee
The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
By Susan M. Reverby
416 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-0972-0
Published: August 2013 -
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-9867-3
Published: November 2009
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
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Awards & distinctions
2011 James F. Sulzby Award, Alabama Historical Association
A 2010 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2010 Arthur J. Viseltear Award, American Public Health Association, Medical Care Section
2010 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
About the Author
Susan M. Reverby is Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley College. She is editor of Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
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Reviews
"This in-depth and comprehensive approach, by exploring the aftermath of the Tuskegee Study, distinguishes it from other writings on this topic. . . . The best presentation, thus far, of how race, medicine and research have intersected as a consequence of this convoluted Tuskegee Syphilis Study."--The Journal of the National Medical Association
"A vitally important contribution to the literature surrounding the study. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice
"Reverby has constructed an essential historical framework of public health ethics. . . . [An] expansive yet detailed account. . . [A] magnificent contribution in examining [Tuskegee's] enduring hold on U.S. cultural life."--Health Affairs
"Reverby offers us a complete description as well as an excellent analysis of this scandalous episode in the history of biomedical research."--Social History of Medicine
"An essential historical framework of public health ethics."--Health Affairs
Multimedia & Links
Read Reverby's groundbreaking Journal of Policy History article, "'Normal Exposure' and Inoculation Syphilis: A PHS 'Tuskegee' Doctor in Guatemala, 1946-48," at her Wellesley faculty page.
See our coverage of the diplomatic and media responses to the article here and here.