Susan Mokotoff Reverby (born 1946) is a

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

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 Cente ...

, and she uncovered the

syphilis experiments in Guatemala The Guatemala syphilis experiments were United States-led Human subject research, human experiments conducted in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948. The experiments were led by physician John Charles Cutler, who also participated in the late stages of th ...

Biography

Susan Mokotoff was 14, when she got 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

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

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

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

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

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

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

U.S. Food and Drug Administration The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food ...

’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 The American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the history of nursing in various ways, using history to achieve adequate recognition for professional nurses and the pioneers of nursing, ...

Published works

''Health Care in America: Essays in Social History'' (with

David Rosner David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and professor of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. He is also Co-Director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public H ...

References

External links

Susan Reverby, author of ''Examining Tuskegee''
- video interview by ''

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