Part I. Overview -- II. Contemporary background -- III. Documenting the issues -- IV. The question of treatment -- V. Historical reconsideration -- VI. Rethinking the role of Nurse Rivers -- VII. The legacy of Tuskegee -- VIII. Key actors rethink the study -- IX. Imagining the Tuskegee Syphilis Study -- X. Apology and beyond.
Summary
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.