Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care

dc.contributor.authorGamble, Vanessa
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:01:34Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:01:34Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.description.abstractThe Tuskegee Syphilis Study continues to cast its long shadow on the contemporary relationship between African Americans and the biomedical community. Numerous reports have argued that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study is the most important reason why many African Americans distrust the institutions of medicine and public health. Such an interpretation neglects a critical historical point: the mistrust predated public revelations about the Tuskegee study. This paper places the syphilis study within a broader historical and social context to demonstrate that several factors have influenced--and continue to influence--African American's attitudes toward the biomedical community.
dc.description.urihttps://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.87.11.1773
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/3ihl-jrcr
dc.identifier.citationGamble, Vanessa (1997) Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care. American Journal of Public Health, 87 (11). pp. 1773-1778.
dc.identifier.issn0090-0036
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 1093
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/23027
dc.subjectBioethics
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectTuskegee Syphilis Study
dc.subjectAfrican Americans
dc.subjectbiomedical community
dc.subjectmistrust
dc.subjectTuskegee
dc.titleUnder the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care
dc.typeArticle

Files