Escaping Melodramas: Reflections on Telling the Histories of the Public Health Service's Research in Tuskegee and Guatemala

Reception to follow.Free and open to the public. Susan Reverby is the Marion Butler McLeanProfessor in the History of Ideas and Professorof Women¿s and Gender Studies at WellesleyCollege and an historian of American women,medicine and nursing.She has written one book and edited a secondon the Tuskegee Syphilis study (1932-72),the longest running non-therapeutic researchstudy in U.S. history that involved the UnitedStates Public Health Service and more than600 African American men in the countiessurrounding Tuskegee, Alabama.