Susan Mokotoff Reverby (born 1946) is a

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professor. She has written on the

Tuskegee syphilis experiment The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Cent ...

and she uncovered the syphilis experiments in Guatemala.

Biography

Susan Mokotoff was 14 when she became 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." Mokotoff received a B.S. degree in Industrial and Labor Relations/Labor History from

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in 1967, an M.A. in American Civilization from

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in 1973, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from

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in 1982. She joined Wellesley in 1982. From 1993–1997 she served as the consumer representative on the

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’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Devices Advisory Panel. 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.

Published works

* 1979: ''Health Care in America: Essays in Social History'' (with David Rosner) * 2020: ''Co-conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman''

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Susan Reverby, author of ''Examining Tuskegee''
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