Escaping Melodramas: Reflections on Historical Events, Government Apologies, and Public Outcries
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Susan Reverby discusses her research on the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-72) and the immoral government medical study in Guatemala in the late 1940s where men and women were given syphilis. She explores the ways in which melodramatic responses both help us understand what happened and hinder our understandings.
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