Name: The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South (en Inglés)
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Author: Jones, Chip
ISBN: 9781982107529

portada The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Chip Jones

Editorial

Gallery/Jeter Publishing

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

400

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.1 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm

Peso

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781982107529

Categorías

Afroamericanos
Discriminación y desigualdad
Historia de la medicina
Historia social y cultural

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South (en Inglés)

Chip Jones (Autor) · Gallery/Jeter Publishing · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South (en Inglés)"

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this "startling...powerful" (Kirkus Reviews) 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, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker's death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family's permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, "this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice" (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).