Examining Tuskegee: the infamous syphilis study and its legacy

Race, medical uncertainty, and American culture

Testimony

Historical contingencies: Tuskegee Institute, the Public Health Service, and syphilis

Planned, plotted, & official: the study begins

Almost undone: the study continues

What makes it stop?

Testimony: the public story in the 1970s

Testifying

What happened to the men & their families?

Why & wherefore: the Public Health Service doctors

Triage & "powerful sympathizing" : Eugene H. Dibble, Jr

The best care: Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie

Traveling

Bioethics, history, & the study as gospel

The court of imagination

The political spectacle of blame & apology

The difficulties of treating racism with "Tuskegee"

Key participants' names

Men's names.