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The forty-year "Tuskegee" Syphilis Study has become the American metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. The subject of histories, films, rumors, and political slogans, it received an official federal apology from President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony.
Susan M. Reverby offers a comprehensive analysis of the notorious study of untreated syphilis, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s. The study involved hundreds of African American men, most of whom were told by the doctors from the U.S. Public Health Service that they were being treated, not just watched, for their late-stage syphilis. Reverby examines the study and its aftermath from multiple perspectives to explain what happened and why the study has such power in collective memory. She follows the study's repercussions in facts and fictions.
Reverby highlights the many uncertainties that dogged the study during its four decades and explores the newly available medical records. She uncovers the different ways it was understood by the men, their families, and the health care professionals, ultimately revising the conventional wisdom on the study.
Writing with rigor and clarity, Reverby illuminates the events and aftermath of the study and sheds light on the complex knot of trust, betrayal, and belief that keeps this study alive in our cultural and political lives.
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- Series: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
- Hardcover: 424 pages
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition (October 3, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 080783310X
- ISBN-13: 978-0807833100
- Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches
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Reverby skillfully incorporates a variety of perspectives in order to give the reader a broad and complete understanding of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Through these perspectives, Reverby is able to explore the factors that allowed the Study to begin, the reasons why it continued for four decades, and the lingering effects on the individuals and families involved with the Study, African American communities, and the medical field. The use of personal narratives within the book kept me engaged and allowed me to feel more empathetic towards the men who were exploited through the Study.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted a comprehensive understanding of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study or to anyone who wanted a new perspective on the treatment of African Americans within the medical field. By reading this book, I not only learned about the past, but also was able to better understand some of the current reasons for health disparity among African American populations.
By Emma Puls
Susan Reverby's book centers around the repetitive motif of African-American history in which black citizens have received dangerous, subpar or simply unjust "treatments" validated by the fact that without such therapies, these individuals would garner no care at all. Examining Tuskegee thoroughly unveils the political, social and economic factors affecting the history of the famous but often inaccurately portrayed syphilis study. Reverby's writing serves to captivatingly correct misconceptions, while providing new and surprising insight into the tragedies that occurred in Tuskegee and initiate questions on how such conditions could be repeated today in national efforts to advance science.
For a graphic interpretation of this subject, I would suggest the 1997 HBO television film,
Miss Evers' Boys
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