2009-2010
November 10, 2009
Susan M. Reverby, Marion Butler McLean Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Examining the ‘Tuskegee' Syphilis Study: What More Can an Historian Say?
DATE: Tuesday, November 10th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209
Susan M. Reverby has been a pioneer in U.S. women's history, and has written extensively on the history of nursing, health care, and medical ethics. Her publications include Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing (l987), Gendered Domains: Beyond the Public and Private in Women's History (1992), Health Care in America : Essays in Social History (1979), and America 's Working Women: a Documentary History (1976). An edited collection of articles and documents entitled Tuskegee 's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study appeared in 2000. Her latest book is Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Legacy, published this fall by the University of North Carolina Press.
