UNL News Release -- March 1 lecture on infamous medical studies canceled
Released on 02/28/2011, at 12:20 PM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
WHEN: Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2011
A March 1 lecture has been canceled at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that was to discuss two U.S.-conducted medical studies that involved hundreds of people without their informed consent decades ago.
Susan Reverby, a professor of women's and gender studies at Wellesley College and a renowned medical historian, was to present "U.S. Syphilis Research Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala: How Should We Think About Them Now?" at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. Due to illness, Reverby has had to cancel her appearance. The lecture will be rescheduled, but a date hasn't been set.
Reverby's talk will be the Linda and Charles Wilson Humanities in Medicine Lecture for 2011.
WRITER: Jean Ortiz Jones, University Communications, (402) 472-8320