Susan Mokotoff Reverby (born 1946) is a Wellesley College professor. She has written on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment,[1] and she uncovered the syphilis experiments in Guatemala.[2]

Biography

Susan Mokotoff was 14 when she got interested with history at Middletown High School. "I dragged my mother to Philadelphia to see where Benjamin Franklin lived," said Reverby. "I always knew: You had to go to the source."[3]

Mokotoff received a B.S. degree in Industrial and Labor Relations/Labor History from Cornell University in 1967, an M.A. in American Civilization from New York University in 1973, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University in 1982. She joined Wellesley in 1982. From 1993–1997 she served as the consumer representative on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Devices Advisory Panel.[4]

Her 1987 book Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945 won the Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing.[5]

Published works

Health Care in America: Essays in Social History (with David Rosner).[6]

References

  1. ^ "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy by Susan M. Reverby". The University of North Carolina Press.
  2. ^ "Wellesley professor unearths a horror: Syphilis experiments in Guatemala". Boston Globe. October 1, 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  3. ^ YAKIN, HEATHER. "Middletown grad uncovers shocking history: US gave Guatemalans syphilis". Times Herald-Record. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
  4. ^ Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College biography Archived 2002-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Lavinia L. Dock Award Recipients". American Association for the History of Nursing.
  6. ^ Pernick, Martin S. (December 1, 1980). "Health Care in America: Essays in Social History (review)". Journal of American History. 67 (3). doi:10.2307/1889935. JSTOR 1889935. Retrieved March 11, 2021.

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