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Jones, Charles, 1952- author.
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Tucker, Bruce.
African Americans -- Medical care -- History.
Discrimination in medical care -- United States.
Racism -- Health aspects -- United States.
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The organ thieves : ...
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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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Jones, Charles, 1952- author.
New York : Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing, 2020.
Subjects
Tucker, Bruce.
African Americans -- Medical care -- History.
Discrimination in medical care -- United States.
Racism -- Health aspects -- United States.
ISBN:
9781982107529 (hardcover) :
1982107529 (hardcover)
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viii, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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First Gallery books hardcover edition.
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An investigation into how racial inequality has shaped the heart transplant race describes how in 1968 an injured black man checked into a hospital before his heart was removed and donated without his family's knowledge or consent.
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
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Hawaii State Library
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362.10899 Jo
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362.10899 Jones
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362.10899 Jo
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362.10899 Jo
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