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Title Tuskegee's truths : rethinking the Tuskegee syphilis study / edited by Susan M. Reverby ; [foreword by James H. Jones].

Imprint Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000.

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Description xviii, 630 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in social medicine
Studies in social medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Processing Action Self-Renewing 2017 UoY
Subject Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
African American men -- Diseases -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
Syphilis -- Research -- Alabama -- Macon County -- History.
Tuskegee University.
Black or African American -- history. (DNLM)D001741Q000266
Human Experimentation -- history. (DNLM)D006805Q000266
Syphilis -- history. (DNLM)D013587Q000266
Informed Consent -- history. (DNLM)D007258Q000266
Alabama. (DNLM)D000407
Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
African American men -- Diseases. (OCoLC)fst00799241
Human experimentation in medicine. (OCoLC)fst00963042
Syphilis -- Research. (OCoLC)fst01141310
Tuskegee Syphilis Study. (OCoLC)fst01159721
Alabama -- Macon County. (OCoLC)fst01212342
Tuskegee-Syphilis-Studie (DE-588)7715900-7
Tuskegee-Syphilis-Studie.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Reverby, Susan M., 1946-
Other Form: Online version: Tuskegee's truths. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000 (OCoLC)606374873
Online version: Tuskegee's truths. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000 (OCoLC)608408758
ISBN 0807825395 (alk. paper)
9780807825396 (alk. paper)
0807848522 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807848524 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Standard No. 9780807848524
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