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  The organ thieves : the shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

  Author

  Jones, Charles, 1952-  

  Publisher:

  Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing,

  Pub date:

  2020.

  Description:

  viii, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :

  ISBN:

  1982107529

  Item info:

  All copies checked out.
  

  Number of holds:

  3

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  The organ thieves : the shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
  Jones, Charles, 1952-
  

  Personal Author:

  Jones, Charles, 1952-

  Title:

  The organ thieves : the shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South / Chip Jones.

  Edition:

  First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

  Publication Info:

  New York : Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing, 2020.

  Physical descrip:

  viii, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

  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.

  Summary:

  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.

  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

  Held by:

  GAYTON GLEN-ALLEN TWNHICKORY NORTH-PARK TUCKAHOE LIBBIEMILL VARINAAREA FAAREA

  Personal subject:

  Tucker, Bruce.

  Subject term:

  African Americans--Medical care.

  Subject term:

  Discrimination in medical care--United States.

  Subject term:

  Health and race--United States.

  Subject term:

  Heart--Transplantation--United States.

  Subject term:

  Racism--Health aspects--United States.