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Edited by Susan M. Reverby. 630 pp., illustrated. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2000. $27.50 (paper); $69.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-8078-4852-2 (paper); 0-8078-2539-5 (cloth).

Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study revisits the infamous Tuskegee Study and explores its contemporary meanings and relevance for American society. The Tuskegee Study was an experiment conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972. Researchers observed the effects of advanced syphilis on 399 poor black sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama, who were followed clinically but not treated, even after the introduction of penicillin therapy in 1943.

The book's editor, a professor of women's studies at Wellesley College, argues that the Tuskegee Study stands out amid a shameful history of unethical medical research. Like many . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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