Tuskegee Syphilis Study Part 1: The Lie
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
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🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Mike tells Sarah about the longest "non-therapeutic" experiment in medical history. Digressions include deep fried ice cream, Kato Kaelin and a hot-yoga cabinet. As a warning, this episode contains long quotes from eugenic memos and detailed descriptions of medical racism. We promise to do a happier episode soon.
Huge thanks to Susan Reverby, Vanessa Northington Gamble and Lillian Head for helping Mike with the research for this episode!
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Links!
- Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care
- Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
- Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Research versus Human Rights
- Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Nurse Rivers, Silence and the Meaning of Treatment
- “There Wasn't a Lot of Comforts in Those Days:” African Americans, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
- The Study Of Untreated Syphilis In The Negro Male
- Nurse Eunice Rivers: Marching to Doctor's Orders in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the Jim Crow South
- Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: Medical Ethics, Constitutionalism, and Property in the Body
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: Biotechnology And The Administrative State
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| 0:00.0 | So yeah, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment really the only word that applies is syphilis. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to You Wrong About where it's just a little bit of history repeating. |
| 0:23.7 | That's very good. |
| 0:25.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:25.6 | Because it's true and it's a reference to a lovely song. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm surely bassy. |
| 0:29.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.6 | Which I'm sure is stuck in your head now and if you have to take a break and listen to it and come back, |
| 0:32.9 | like, please do that. |
| 0:33.9 | Okay. |
| 0:34.3 | This is where you do that. |
| 0:35.2 | Can we stop? |
| 0:35.7 | I need to do that too. |
| 0:38.1 | And we're back. |
| 0:42.0 | I am Michael Hobbs. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm Sarah Marshall. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm working on a book about the satanic panic. |
| 0:47.4 | And if you want to support the show and hear fun bonus episodes, |
| 0:50.0 | we are on Patreon at patreon.com slash you're wrong about. |
| 0:53.5 | And there's other ways that you can support the show or you could just listen to the show and not do anything. |
| 0:57.9 | And that's cool too. |
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