Tuskegee

1. A Creek settlement that the modern city of Tuskegee, Alabama is located on.
2. A city, the county seat of Macon County, in southwestern Alabama, United States.
3. A former town of the Overhill Cherokee people, located along the Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee, United States.
4. The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a landmark event in medical research ethics and law.

   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

5. Tuskegee National Forest.
6. Tuskegee University.

plural Tuskegees

1. An unethical experiment on humans.

   You couldn't have a Tuskegee with a community consultation requirement, or even with public notification, because people would say, 'No, this stinks.'

   2004 March, Steve Whitehead, Blood On Tap, Part 2: An Ethical Dilemma in Emergency Research, Emergency Medical Services

2. historicalrareOne of the Tuskegee Airmen.