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Author Jones, Charles, 1952- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Gallery Books/Jeter Publishing, [2020]
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  617.412 JONES    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  617.954 JONES    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  617.412 JONES    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  617.4 JONES, CHARLES    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  617.412 JONES    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  617.412 JONES    Check Shelf
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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.
Tucker, Bruce.
Discrimination in medical care -- United States.
African Americans -- Medical care.
Health and race -- United States.
Racism -- Health aspects -- United States.
African Americans -- Medical care. (OCoLC)fst00799638
Discrimination in medical care. (OCoLC)fst00895105
Health and race. (OCoLC)fst00952806
Heart -- Transplantation. (OCoLC)fst00953684
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Title Shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South
ISBN 9781982107529 (hardcover)
1982107529 (hardcover)
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