Chip Jones

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The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated SouthHardcover, 18 August 2020

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
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Print Length
400 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Date Published
18 Aug 2020
ISBN-10
1982107529
ISBN-13
9781982107529

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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).

Product Details

Author:
Chip Jones
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 August 2020
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.24 x 3.56 cm
ISBN-10:
1982107529
ISBN-13:
9781982107529
Language:
English
Pages:
400
Weight:
521.63 gm

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