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

Chip Jones

400 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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