18 Jun No.34/ Tuskegee Study on Syphilis
34th TED-ED – TAW coproduction
Synopsis: Afflicting nearly 1 in 10 Americans, syphilis was ravaging the U.S. in the 1930s. Many doctors believed syphilis affected Black and white patients differently, and the Public Health Service launched an experiment to investigate, recruiting 600 Black men to take part. But the study was centered on a lie: the men wouldn’t actually receive treatment. Susan Reverby details the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
View full lesson: Ugly History: The U.S. Syphilis Experiment – Susan M. Reverby
Length: 05 min 18 sec
Release Date: June 8, 2021
Educator: Susan M. Reverby
Directors: Ouros Animation (Philip Piaget, Rikke Planeta)
Narrator: Christina Greer
Storyboard Artists: Rikke Planeta, Philip Piaget
Animator: Philip Piaget
Art Director: Federico Pirovano
Producers: The Animation Workshop, Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Music: Stephen LaRosa
Sound Designer: Stephen LaRosa
Director of Production: Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Producers: Alex Rosenthal, Dan Kwartler
Script Editor: Iseult Gillespie
Production Coordinator: Abdallah Ewis
Fact-Checker: Jennifer Nam
About Ouros Animation: Ouros is an animation production company founded by Philip Piaget and Rikke Planeta in 2018, located at Arsenalet Creative Hub in Viborg, Denmark. Ouros is a company hell-bent in creating unique visual projects that resonate with people and demonstrate passion for the craft of animation and film-making.
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