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Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South

Jones, Chip

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Edition:	1st
Publisher:	Independently Published
ISBN:	1-982107-54-5 (1982107545)
ISBN-13:	978-1-982107-54-3 (9781982107543)
Binding:	E E Book + ProQuest Ebook Central
Copyright:	2020
Publish Date:	08/20
Weight:	0.00 Lbs.
Subject Class:	G-I (General Interest)
Return Policy:	Non-Returnable.

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Class Specifications
Discipline:	Cardiovas Sys
Subject Definition:	Heart Transplantation-History; Racism; Black or African Amer
NLM Class:	WG 169
LC Class:	RD598
Abstract:	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 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.

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