Tuskegee

Tuskegee

English

Etymology

From Spanish Tasquiqui, which itself came from Creek Taskeke (“warriors”), the name of a Creek settlement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʌsˈkiːɡiː/

Proper noun

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.
   • 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.

5. Tuskegee National Forest.
6. Tuskegee University.

Derived terms

• Tuskegeean
• Tuskegee Airman

Noun

Tuskegee (plural Tuskegees)

1. An unethical experiment on humans.
   • 2004, Steve Whitehead, Blood On Tap, Part 2: An Ethical Dilemma in Emergency Research, Emergency Medical Services, March 2004.

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

2. (rare, historical) One of the Tuskegee Airmen.