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Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
Jones, Chip
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Book Information
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)
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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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