Preface by Allan M. Brandt and Larry R. Churchill
Introduction. More Than a Metaphor: An Overview of the Scholarship of the Study
Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
Events in the Tuskegee Syphilis Project: A Timeline
PART II. CONTEMPORARY BACKGROUND
The Shadow of the Plantation: Survival
Shadow on the Land: Syphilis, the White Man’s Burden
PART III. DOCUMENTING THE ISSUES
Syphilis Victims in U.S. Study Went Untreated for 40 Years
Untreated Syphilis in the Male Negro: Mortality during Twelve Years of Observation
Twenty Years of Followup Experience in a Long-Range Medical Study
Interview with Four Survivors, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare Study, 1973
Testimony by Four Survivors from the United States Senate Hearings on Human Experimentation, 1973
Testimony by Peter Buxton from the United States Senate Hearings on Human Experimentation, 1973
PART IV. THE QUESTION OF TREATMENT
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis
The Contribution of the Tuskegee Study to Medical Knowledge
The “Tuskegee Study” of Syphilis: Analysis of Moral versus Methodologic Aspects
PART V. HISTORICAL RECONSIDERATION
The Rhetoric of Dehumanization: An Analysis of Medical Reports of the Tuskegee Syphilis Project
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the Context of American Medical Research
A Case Study in Historical Relativism: The Tuskegee (Public Health Service) Syphilis Study
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: Biotechnology and the Administrative State
PART VI. RETHINKING THE ROLE OF NURSE RIVERS
An Interview with Nurse Rivers
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Nurse Rivers and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Neither Victim nor Villain: Eunice Rivers and Public Health Work
Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Nurse Rivers, Silence, and the Meaning of Treatment
PART VII. THE LEGACY OF TUSKEGEE
Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care
Families Emerge as Silent Victims of Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments
PART VIII. KEY ACTORS RETHINK THE STUDY
Venereal Disease Control by Health Departments in the Past: Lessons for the Present
The Infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study
PART IX. IMAGINING THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY
Selections from Miss Evers’ Boys
Statement of Attorney Fred Gray
President William J. Clinton’s Remarks
The Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World
Ethical Complexities of Conducting Research in Developing Countries
A section of illustrations follows page 181.