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- ISBN
- 9781982107529
- Book Title
- Organ Thieves : the Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Gallery/Jeter Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Medical, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Surgery / Transplant, Discrimination & Race Relations, Black Studies (Global), African American
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 20.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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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, only to have his heart stolen 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, The Organ Thieves is a story that resonates now more than ever, when issues of race and healthcare are the stuff of headlines and horror stories.
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Publisher
Gallery/Jeter Publishing
ISBN-10
1982107529
ISBN-13
9781982107529
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038520953
Product Key Features
Book Title
Organ Thieves : the Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Surgery / Transplant, Discrimination & Race Relations, Black Studies (Global), African American
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Medical, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
20.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Chip has a remarkable talent for uncovering and telling stories. The years he has spent on this book shed light on this fascinating and alarming slice of history." -Derek Jeter, National Baseball Hall of Famer, executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, "In this captivating true story, journalist Chip Jones outlines how ambitious surgeons took a black man's heart without his family's consent and implanted it into a white man's body in the name of scientific progress. The Organ Thieves is a gripping exposé unveiling racism at the heart of medical advances." --Kristen Green, author of New York Times bestseller Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County, "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. Jones evokes each person and each scene with remarkable skill and compassion, recreating an America of the 1960s and 1970s that speaks directly to the dilemmas of the twenty-first century." --Edward L. Ayers, Award-Winning Historian and Winner of the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes, "Jones meticulously details how yet another significant achievement in America was disproportionately costly for black people. The Organ Thieves exhumes more than just bodies--it unearths human hopes, scientific ambitions, and devastating mistakes." --Benjamin Jealous, former president and CEO of the NAACP and visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, "Beyond his meticulous scholarship, Jones is a magnificent writer who takes a classic case of medical malfeasance and converts it into a work that reads like a novel. If it were a novel, it would be a candidate for major awards, but it is a true story and even more likely to be used in medical schools across the country as well as courses in history and ethics." --John V. Moeser, Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Startling... A powerful story that examines institutional racism, mortality, medical ethics, and the nature of justice for black men living in the American South... A moving exploration of an unthinkable trespass against an innocent man." - Kirkus, "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. Jones evokes each person and each scene with remarkable skill and compassion, recreating an America of the 1960s and 1970s that speaks directly to the dilemmas of the twenty-first century." --Edward L. Ayers, winner of the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes, "Chip Jones's The Organ Thieves is the brilliantly researched and written story of how Jim Crow racism infected the medical profession during the Cold War era. The twists and turns in this Virginia saga are astonishingly sad and at times triumphant. Every page is a revelation. A must read!" -- Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, Professor of History at Rice University, and author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race., "Chip Jones's gripping story of the first heart transplant case in segregated Virginia is beautifully written and deeply researched. The Organ Thieves is a riveting and chilling account of how race and poverty affect medical science and medical care. I found Jones's book impossible to put down and just as impossible to forget." --U.S. Army Brigadier General Ty Seidule, Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, "When a great reporter meets the story he was born to tell, Chip Jones's The Organ Thieves is the result. What happened to Bruce Tucker on an operating table in Richmond, Virginia in 1968 can't be dismissed simply as the misdeeds of certain doctors in a certain city in a bygone era. Jones offers something richer and more complex. This extraordinary book raises fundamental questions about racial injustice and inequality that haunt us to this day." --Charles Slack, author of Liberty's First Crisis and Hetty, "Chip has a remarkable talent for uncovering and telling stories. The years he has spent on this book shed light on this fascinating and alarming slice of history." -Derek Jeter, "Startling... A powerful story that examines institutional racism, mortality, medical ethics, and the nature of justice for black men living in the American South... A moving exploration of an unthinkable trespass against an innocent man." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Doggedly reported... A dramatic and fine-grained exposé of the mistreatment of black Americans by the country's white medical establishment." -- Publishers Weekly, "Journalist Chip Jones tells a gruesome story....The disregard for Black lives The Organ Thieves documents makes it an urgently modern warning." -- The Washington Post, "Chip has a remarkable talent for uncovering and telling stories. The years he has spent on this book shed light on this fascinating and alarming slice of history." -Derek Jeter, National Baseball Hall of Famer, Executive, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, "Beyond his meticulous scholarship, Jones is a magnificent writer who takes a classic case of medical malfeasance and converts it into a work that reads like a novel. If it were a novel, it would be a candidate for major awards, but it is a true story and even more likely to become a national bestseller and used in medical schools across the country as well as courses in history and ethics." --Dr. John V. Moeser, Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning, Virginia Commonwealth University, " The Organ Thieves is a heartbreaker: for a family, for a community, for all the powerless and dispossessed. it exposes the dark well of racism, self-interest, and greed we always fight to hide. But like so many great books, it enters as tragedy and exits as a celebration of honesty, strength, and the power of a few good, dedicated people to change the world. Yes, it will steal your heart. I mean... obviously, right? But it will also get into your head and into your soul." --Bret Witter, #1 New York Times bestselling co-writer of The Monuments Men and The Master Plan, "Chip has a remarkable talent for uncovering and telling stories. The years he has spent on this book shed light on this fascinating and alarming slice of history." -Derek Jeter, creator of Jeter Publishing, fourteen-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion for the New York Yankees, and CEO and part owner of the Miami Marlins., "With elements of legal and social history, this work is recommended for readers interested in the history of race and racism, and how it relates to medical practice in the United States." -- Library Journal, "Beyond his meticulous scholarship, Jones is a magnificent writer who takes a classic case of medical malfeasance and converts it into a work that reads like a novel. If it were a novel, it would be a candidate for major awards, but it is a true story and even more likely to be used in medical schools across the country as well as courses in history and ethics." --John V. Moeser, professor emeritus of urban studies and planning at Virginia Commonwealth University, "Chip Jones's The Organ Thieves is the brilliantly researched and written story of how Jim Crow racism infected the medical profession during the Cold War era. The twists and turns in this Virginia saga are astonishingly sad and at times triumphant. Every page is a revelation. A must read!" -- Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University and author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race., "A riveting true story of the race to perform the first heart transplant--a clash of humanity and science that redefined the legal meaning of 'life.' Jones brilliantly explores the racial inequities of the unreconstructed South of 1968 and at last brings a modicum of justice to Bruce Tucker, a man whose legacy was his actual heart." --Dean King, nationally bestselling author of Skeletons on the Zahara and The Feud, "A stirring, minute-by-minute saga... Jones has sifted through these events with great care, looking at all players, every side issue, and later results and fallout... His well-considered book has the power to open and change minds, and it ought to be widely read." --BookReporter, "Startling... A powerful story that examines institutional racism, mortality, medical ethics, and the nature of justice for black men living in the American South... A moving exploration of an unthinkable trespass against an innocent man." - Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Decimal
362.1783
Dewey Edition
23
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