Tuskegee

English

Proper noun

Tuskegee

  1. A city in southwestern Alabama in the United States, and the county seat of Macon County.
  2. The notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a landmark event in medical research ethics and law.
    • 2001, Paul Farmer, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, University of California Press, page 35.
      Responding with some heat to Angell's criticisms—they described comparisons to Tuskegee as "inflammatory and wrong"—the writers explained that cultural differences were at the heart of the problem.
  3. An unethical experiment on humans. (A reference to the former)
    • 2004, Steve Whitehead, Blood On Tap, Part 2: An Ethical Dilemma in Emergency Research, Emergency Medical Services, March 2004.
      You couldn't have a Tuskegee with a community consultation requirement, or even with public notification, because people would say, 'No, this stinks.'
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