Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College
Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Place: College Hall 209, University of Pennsylvania
The Richard Shryock Lecture in American History.
Information: 215-898-8452
Susan M. Reverby is Marion Butler McLean Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She has been a pioneer in U.S. women’s history, and has written extensively on the history of nursing, health care, and medical ethics. Her publications include Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing (l987), Gendered Domains: Beyond the Public and Private in Women's History (1992), Health Care in America: Essays in Social History (1979), and America's Working Women: a Documentary History (1976). An edited collection of articles and documents entitled Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study appeared in 2000. Her latest book is Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Legacy, published in fall 2009 by the University of North Carolina Press