Edition |
First Gallery books hardcover edition. |
Description |
viii, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-338) and index. |
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 |
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 |
Subject |
Heart -- Transplantation -- United States.
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Tucker, Bruce.
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Discrimination in medical care -- United States.
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African Americans -- Medical care.
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Health and race -- United States.
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Racism -- Health aspects -- United States.
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African Americans -- Medical care.
(OCoLC)fst00799638
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Discrimination in medical care. (OCoLC)fst00895105
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Health and race. (OCoLC)fst00952806
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Heart -- Transplantation.
(OCoLC)fst00953684
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Added Title |
Shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South |
ISBN |
9781982107529 (hardcover) |
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1982107529 (hardcover) |
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