Tuskegee Syphilis Study Part 1: The Lie

Mike tells Sarah about the longest "non-therapeutic" experiment in medical history. Digressions include deep fried ice cream, Kato Kaelin and a hot-yoga cabinet. As a warning, this episode contains long quotes from eugenic memos and detailed descriptions of medical racism. We promise to do a happier episode soon.

Huge thanks to Susan Reverby, Vanessa Northington Gamble and Lillian Head for helping Mike with the research for this episode!

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Links!

• Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care
• Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
• Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
• The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Research versus Human Rights
• Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Nurse Rivers, Silence and the Meaning of Treatment
• “There Wasn't a Lot of Comforts in Those Days:” African Americans, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
• The Study Of Untreated Syphilis In The Negro Male
• Nurse Eunice Rivers: Marching to Doctor's Orders in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the Jim Crow South
• Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
• The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: Medical Ethics, Constitutionalism, and Property in the Body
• The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: Biotechnology And The Administrative State

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