Dr. Susan Reverby of Wellesley College will be presenting a lecture entitled "Race, Medicine and Research: Re-examining the Infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Its Legacy." The lecture will be based upon her research focusing on the infamous study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service beginning in the 1930's.
Dr. Reverby is an internationally known scholar of American women's history, the history of medicine, and the history of public health and nursing. Throughout her career, Professor Reverby has served on a number of national health advisory committees including the Legacy Committee on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study that successfully lobbied then-President Bill Clinton to offer a public apology in 1997 to the surviving men and their heirs.
The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Department of History at 460-6210 or visit www.usouthal.edu/history .
