Examining Tuskegee

Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) [Hardcover]

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The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. Susan M. Reverby's Examining Tuskegee is a comprehensive analysis of the notorious study of untreated syphilis among African American men, who were told by U.S. Public Health Service doctors that they were being treated, not just watched, for their late-stage syphilis. With rigorous clarity, Reverby investigates the study and its aftermath from multiple perspectives and illuminates the reasons for its continued power and resonance in our collective memory.

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• Series: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition (November 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080783310X
• ISBN-13: 978-0807833100
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #376,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #60 in Books > History > Americas > United States > African Americans > History

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

By Collegestudent155

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