The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South

Chip Jones

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction health history science challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, onl...

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