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More Than Fact and Fiction: Cultural Memory and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (The Hastings Center, abstract, edited)

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More Than Fact and Fiction: Cultural Memory and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (The Hastings Center, abstract, edited)


[Source: The Hastings Center, full PDF Document (LINK). Abstract, edited.]

More Than Fact and Fiction: Cultural Memory and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Author(s): Susan M. Reverby

Source: The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 31, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 2001), pp. 22-28

Published by: The Hastings Center

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3527701

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More than Fact and Fiction Cultural Memory and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

by SUSAN M. REVERBY


The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is surrounded by illuminating misconceptions-myths that cannot be blithely dismissed because they actually provide some insight into the significance of the study. One of those is that the men were deliberately infected with syphilis; another is that they obtained no treatment for the disease. Some other errors are alleged in two recent articles about the study, but these articles themselves create their own fictions.

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