{"product_id":"the-organ-thieves-the-shocking-story-of-the-first-heart-transplant-in-the-segregated-south","title":"The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e in this \"startling...powerful\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Organ Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Promise of the New South\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1982107537\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781982107536\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Jones, Chip\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Gallery\/Jeter Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gallery\/Jeter Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Feb 2022)","offer_id":46080521928901,"sku":"9781982107536","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781982107536.jpg?v=1776038057","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-organ-thieves-the-shocking-story-of-the-first-heart-transplant-in-the-segregated-south","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}