The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in America's Segregated South by Chip Jones

The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in America's Segregated South

Chip Jones

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction health history science challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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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 jour...

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