The Organ Thieves
The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in America's Segregated South
$44.80
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2022
Summary
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 ineq…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529400625 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529400627 |
| Author: | Chip Jones |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 28mm |
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A horrific story superbly told * Irish Times *
Gripping * Scientific American *
About The Author
Chip Jones
Charles ‘Chip’ Jones has been reporting for nearly thirty years for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Roanoke Times, Virginia Business magazine, and others. As a reporter for The Roanoke Times, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Pittston coal strike. He is the former communications director of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, which is where he first discovered the heart stopping story in The Organ Thieves.
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