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Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care.

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Gamble, V N·1997·American Journal of Public Health
DOI 10.2105/ajph.87.11.1773PMC PMC1381160
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The 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.

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  1. Research," American Journal of Preventive Medicine 9 (1993): 35-38;
  2. A detailed examination of the campaign to establish Black hospitals can be found in Vanessa Northington Gamble, Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 1920-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
  3. H. M. Green, A More or Less Critical Review of the Hospital Situation among Negroes in the United States (n.d., circa 1930), 4-5.
  4. Frances Cress Welsing, The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (Chicago: Third World Press, 1991), 298-299. Although she is not very well known outside of the African- American community, Welsing, a physician, is a popular figure within it. The Isis Papers headed for several weeks the best-seller list maintained by Black bookstores.
  5. "Fear Creates Lack of Donor Organs among Blacks," Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, 13 March 1994.

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Authors
Gamble, V. N.
Affiliations
University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
Corresponding author
Gamble, V N
Venue
American Journal of Public Health
Publisher
American Public Health Association
Published
1997-11
Volume
87
Issue
11
Pages
1773-1778
ISSN
  • 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1541-0048
DOI
10.2105/ajph.87.11.1773
PMC
PMC1381160
OpenAlex
W2123107134
Cited by
1,263
References
32
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • American Journal of Public Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Race, Genetics, and Society
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Medical History and Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
Keywords
Tuskegee syphilis study, African Americans, health care, biomedical research ethics, history of medicine
MeSH terms
Alabama, Black or African American, Delivery of Health Care, Humans, Human Experimentation, Prejudice, Syphilis, Patient Selection, Value of Life, Trust, Research Subjects, Biomedical Research, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century

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