March 1 lecture on infamous medical studies postponed

Susan Reverby
Susan Reverby

A March 1 lecture at the UNL that was to discuss two U.S.-conducted medical studies that involved hundreds of people without their informed consent decades ago has been postponed.

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. Because of illness, Reverby has had to cancel her appearance. The lecture will be rescheduled, but a date hasn't yet been set.

Reverby's talk will be the Linda and Charles Wilson Humanities in Medicine Lecture for 2011.