Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2023
Abstract
The U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study (USPHSSS) is the nation’s most infamous example of biomedical misconduct in the United States. Using the wives and the descendants of the USPHSSS as a case study, this project examines and conceptualizes how the lack of healthcare access and secondhand healthcare the wives and descendants received has had a cumulative impact on Black women and contemporary iatrophobia, using a Black feminist ethical and constructivist theoretical framework. Findings reflect two major themes for contemporary iatrophobia: systemic racism and what Muhjah Shakir terms the cultural constellation of silence.
Recommended Citation
Morgan, Krystal. (2023) Invisible in Plain Sight: A Qualitative Analysis of The U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study and Contemporary Issues of Iatrophobia in Black Women.
https://via.library.depaul.edu/strc_undergraduate_student_research_fellowship/1
Embargo
2024
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