ISBN: 1440854513 9781440854514

Category: Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / General

Page count: 155

<p>This book acknowledges the importance of women's voices, and especially black women's voices, in history. It does so by revealing something that history has long ignored--how women were directly involved in and impacted by the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Arguably the most controversial and longest duration nontherapeutic research study ever performed by the United States government, the "The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Male Negro" was conducted in Macon County, Alabama, between 1932 and 1972. This book provides a new lens through which to view and acknowledge the impact of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study on the historically overlooked women and children.</p><p></p><p>The historical narrative of the Tuskegee tragedy is customarily framed as a shocking medical experiment conducted by government doctors against African American <i>men</i>. Yet, women were also directly impacted, a fact that has traditionally been overlooked--until now. This groundbreaking book focuses on unique narratives of women who have been marginalized in the historical accounts of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis study at Tuskegee.</p>