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The organ thieves : the shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South

The organ thieves : the shocking story of the first heart transplant in the segregated South

Book 2020

"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 ... 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...