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Tuskegee as Sacred Rhetoric: Focal Point for the Emergent Field of African American Religion and Health
1African and African American Studies and Health and Human Services, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, CASL 2035, Dearborn, MI, 48128, USA. terrlaws@umich.edu.
Abstract:
Scholars in African American religion engage the Tuskegee Syphilis Study as the focal point of the African American experience in institutional medicine. Seeking a way forward from this history and its intentional evil, the author proposes to position Tuskegee as a form of Lynch's culturally contextual sacred rhetoric to make use of its metaphoric value in the emerging field of African American religion and health. In this broader meaning-making frame, Tuskegee serves as a reminder that African American religious sensibility has long been an agential resource that counters abuse of the Black body. It also acknowledges the complex decisions facing African American clinical trial participants.
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