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Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie | |
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| Born | November 12, 1899[1] |
| Died | August 28, 1986 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Eunice Rivers |
| Occupation | nurse |
| Known for | medical study coordinator |
| Spouse | Julius Laurie |
Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie (1899-1986) was an African American nurse who worked in the state of Alabama. She is best known for her work as the coordinator of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.[2]
Early life and education
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Career
Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Rivers worked for the United States Public Health Service on The Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male in Macon County, Alabama, popularly known as the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.[3] She recruited 399 African-American men with syphilis for the study and worked to keep them enrolled as participants in the program. In return for their participation, the study offered participants free medical care, which Nurse Rivers provided. She was the experiment's only consistent full-time staff member.[3]
Although the study was initially planned to run only 3 months, it eventually extended to 40 years.[4] During the entire study, the participants were not informed that the ailment they called "bad blood" was actually syphilis, even after the 1940s when the discovery of penicillin offered a cure for the disease.[3][4]
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Later life
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References
- ^ "Black Women in America: Eunice Rivers Laurie". Beautiful, Also, Are the Souls of my Black Sisters. 21 August 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- ^ Smith, Susan L. (1996). "Neither Victim nor Villain: Nurse Eunice Rivers, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Public Health Work". Journal of Women's History. 8 (1): 95–113. doi:10.1353/jowh.2010.0446.
- ^ a b c Marriott, Michel (16 February 1997). "First, Do No Harm: a Nurse And the Deceived Subjects Of the Tuskegee Study". New York Times. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- ^ a b Bernal, Ethan (14 March 2013). "Rivers' role: A deeper look into nurse Eunice Rivers Laurie". The Tuskegee News. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
Additional resources
- Reverby, Susan (2009). "Gallery: Nurse Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie". Examining Tuskegee. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- Reverby, Susan (2009). Examining Tuskegee: the infamous syphilis study and its legacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807833100.
- Oral history interview: Laurie, Eunice (10 October 1977). "Black Women Oral History Project. Interviews, 1976-1981. Eunice Laurie. OH-31" (Interview). Interviewed by A. Lillian Thompson, Tuskegee, Alabama. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
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