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Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie (1899–1986) was an African American nurse who worked in the state of Alabama. She is known for her work as one of the nurses of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study in Macon County from 1932 to 1972.
12 de nov. de 2021 · Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie passed away on August 28, 1986, fourteen years after the Study was first publicly revealed. Notably, her husband excluded the name by which the nurse was best known and the name that came to be entangled with the Study’s infamy.
5 de mar. de 2019 · A black registered nurse, Eunice Rivers (later Eunice Rivers Laurie), played an essential part in getting the study done. She gained the confidence of patients, knew how to talk to them, became friends with them, visited them at home, provided transportation in her own car, and worked hard to locate patients when the researchers lost ...
31 de jul. de 2023 · Miss Eunice Rivers, RN, a public health nurse and scientific assistant, was a critical, long-term worker in the TSUS. After scandal closed the TSUS in 1972, Rivers was the target of adverse attention, often portrayed as the only woman involved in the study in both fictional depictions and other nonfiction sources.
8 de ago. de 1972 · Public health nurse Eunice Rivers Laurie worked for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study for 39 years; she discusses her experience working with patients. The third report in a seven-part series by...
Quick Reference. (b. 12 November 1899; d. 28 August 1986); nurse, public health advocate. Eunice Rivers Laurie may have been America’s most controversial and frequently discussed black public health nurse. In l958 ... From: Laurie, Eunice Rivers in Black Women in America ».
14 de oct. de 2013 · The Tuskegee syphilis study’s most enduring figure is also one of its most intriguing. Nurse Eunice Rivers was instrumental to the study for both procuring its members and then keeping them involved in it.
