The Organ Thieves
Autor Chip Jonesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2022
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).
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781982107536
ISBN-10: 1982107537
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Gallery Books
ISBN-10: 1982107537
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Gallery Books
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Chip Jones
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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.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.