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  • Title The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
  • Author Chip Jones
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Gallery/Jeter Publishing
  • Date 2022-02-15
  • ISBN 9781982107536 / 1982107537
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
    • Geographic Orientation: Virginia
    • Topical: Black History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 617.412

About the author

Chip Jones has been reporting for nearly thirty years for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Roanoke Times, Virginia Business magazine, and other publications. As a reporter for The Roanoke Times, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Pittston coal strike. He is the former communications director of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, which is where he first discovered the heart-stopping story in The Organ Thieves, now the winner of the Library of Virginia's Literary Award for Nonfiction. It has become an invaluable resource for medical schools and other organizations exploring the history of racism and current inequities in America's healthcare system. For more, visit ChipJonesBooks.com.

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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, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize–nominated 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. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, "this powerful book weaves together a medical… Read More
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