The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South Contributor(s): Jones, Chip (Author) |
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ISBN: 1982107537 ISBN-13: 9781982107536 Publisher: Gallery/Jeter Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2022 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | African American - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Medical | History |
Dewey: 617.412 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 400 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this "startling...powerful" (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker's death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family's permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, "this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice" (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South). |