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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:	1-982107-53-7 (1982107537)
ISBN-13:	978-1-982107-53-6 (9781982107536)
Binding:	Softcover
Copyright:	2020
Publish Date:	02/22
Weight:	1.00 Lbs.
Pages:	400
Subject Class:	M-E (Medical Ethics)
Return Policy:	Non-Returnable.
Contributing Authors:	View
ProQuest Ebook Central:	Available in ProQuest Ebook Central™ View

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 that would prove fatal. His heart was taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman--without permission of Tucker's family. Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker's death. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting-- and culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s.

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