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The organ thieves, the shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South, Chip Jones

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The organ thieves, the shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South, Chip Jones

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-338) and index

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mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The organ thieves

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1182910990

Responsibility statement

Chip Jones

Sub title

the shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South

Summary

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. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Part one. Roots. Case of the missing heart -- The resurrectionists -- The anatomy men -- "The limbo of the unclaimed" -- Part two. The race. Breaking the heart barrier --Heart on ice -- Restless genius -- The glass jar -- Foreign exchange -- Finish line -- Part three. Reckoning. The fall -- His brother's heart -- The scream -- "Facts and circumstances" -- Part four. Troubles, trials, and tribulations. Rejection -- The making of a medical celebrity -- The defender -- Relative death -- Time of trial -- Friends in high places -- Shaping of a verdict --The unresolved case of Bruce Tucker -- Down in the well -- Epilogue. The soul of medicine -- Afterword. Unhealed history

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Shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South

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