The Organ Thieves av Chip Jones

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<p><b><i>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks</i></b><b> meets <i>Get Out</i> in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race.</b><br><br>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 <i>The Organ Thieves</i>, 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.<br><br>Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, <i>The Organ Thieves</i> is a story that resonates now more than ever, when issues of rac