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Doing Bad in the Name of Good?
The Tuskegee syphilis study and its legacy
The Tuskegee Study has come, for many, to symbolize medical misconduct and the blatant disregard for human rights in the name of science. Newspaper accounts concerning the recent revelations of radiation experimentation conducted by scientists on unsuspecting subjects draw parallels with the Tuskegee Study.
Doing Bad in the Name of Good?: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Its Legacy is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required. For further information, please contact Joan Echtenkamp Klein, assistant director for Historical Collections and Services, Health Sciences Library, Box 234, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908
The Tuskegee syphilis study and its legacy
A symposium sponsored by The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, the Medical Center Hour, the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center Continuing Medical Education Program, the Center for Continuing Nursing Education and Professional Development, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy.
The symposium speakers will be:
James H. Jones, PhD, professor of history at the University of Houston, and author of Bad Blood (New York: Free Press, 1993)
Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Departments of the History of Medicine, Preventive Medicine, and Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin
Susan M. Reverby, PhD, associate professor and chair of Women’s Studies at Wellesley College
Patricia A. Sullivan, assistant director for the Center for the Study of Civil Rights at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia
Paul A. Lombardo, JD, PhD, director of the Mental Health Law Training and Research Center of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia
John C. Fletcher; PhD, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
Gertrude Fraser; PhD, assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.
All sessions and the reception will be held in McLeod Hall Auditorium, School of Nursing, Lane Road from 1:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
The film Bad Blood (London: Diverse Production Limited, 1992), which provides context for the Tuskegee Study and effectively uses interviews of participants, will also be screened. Thanks to the following sponsors for additional support: Vice President and Provost for Health Sciences, Dean of the School of Medicine, Dean of the School of Nursing, and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies.
Wednesday, February 23, 1994
