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Author Jones, Chip, author.

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.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2023737~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  617.4120592 JON    AVAILABLE
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Description viii, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-373) and index.
Contents Case of the missing heart -- The resurrectionists -- The anatomy men -- "The limbo of the unclaimed" -- Breaking the heart barrier -- Heart on ice -- Restless genius -- The glass jar -- Foreign exchange -- Finish line -- The fall -- His brother's heart -- The scream -- "Facts and circumstances" -- Rejection -- The making of a medical celebrity -- The defender -- Relative death -- Time of trial -- Friends in high places -- Shaping 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.
Subject Tucker, Bruce.
Heart -- Transplantation -- United States.
Discrimination in medical care -- United States.
African Americans -- Medical care.
Health and race -- United States.
Racism -- Health aspects -- United States.
ISBN 9781982107529 (hardcover)
1982107529 (hardcover)
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