Tuskegee
English
Etymology
From Spanish Tasquiqui, which itself came from Creek Taskeke (“warriors”), the name of a Creek settlement.
Proper noun
Tuskegee
- A city, the county seat of Macon County, in southwestern Alabama, United States.
- A former Overhill Cherokee town located along the Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee.
- The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, 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.
- 2001, Paul Farmer, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, University of California Press, page 35.
- Tuskegee National Forest.
- Tuskegee University.
Derived terms
Noun
Tuskegee (plural Tuskegees)
- An unethical experiment on humans.
- 2004, Steve Whitehead, Blood On Tap, Part 2: An Ethical Dilemma in Emergency Research, Emergency Medical Services, March 2004. [1]
- You couldn't have a Tuskegee with a community consultation requirement, or even with public notification, because people would say, 'No, this stinks.'
- 2004, Steve Whitehead, Blood On Tap, Part 2: An Ethical Dilemma in Emergency Research, Emergency Medical Services, March 2004. [1]
- (rare, historical) One of the Tuskegee Airmen.
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