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The Organ Thieves by Chip Jones
Aug. 23rd, 2020 11:29 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Virginia, 1968. In the segregated American South, surgeons raced to do what many still thought was impossible: transplant a human heart. After Bruce Tucker, a black man, was admitted to the state’s top hospital with a head injury, he never left the hospital alive: but his heart did, in the chest of a white man.
The decades of scandal and investigation which followed uncovered a long, gruesome history of human experimentation and racial inequality, of body-snatching and cover-ups stretching back to the nineteenth century and still resonating today. The story is told here for the first tie in full by Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter Chip Jones.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Charles “Chip” Jones is a former communications director of the Richmond Academy of Medicine and earned a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize during his 30 year reporting career. This is the horrifying account and fascinating account of the murky circumstances in which a black man’s heart was put into a white man’s body in 1968 Richmond, Virginia, which Jones ties back to the state’s historic segregation and poor treatment of its black community.
THE ORGAN THIEVES was released in the United Kingdom on 15th August 2020. Thanks to Quercus Books for the review copy of this book.
Virginia, 1968. In the segregated American South, surgeons raced to do what many still thought was impossible: transplant a human heart. After Bruce Tucker, a black man, was admitted to the state’s top hospital with a head injury, he never left the hospital alive: but his heart did, in the chest of a white man.
The decades of scandal and investigation which followed uncovered a long, gruesome history of human experimentation and racial inequality, of body-snatching and cover-ups stretching back to the nineteenth century and still resonating today. The story is told here for the first tie in full by Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter Chip Jones.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Charles “Chip” Jones is a former communications director of the Richmond Academy of Medicine and earned a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize during his 30 year reporting career. This is the horrifying account and fascinating account of the murky circumstances in which a black man’s heart was put into a white man’s body in 1968 Richmond, Virginia, which Jones ties back to the state’s historic segregation and poor treatment of its black community.
THE ORGAN THIEVES was released in the United Kingdom on 15th August 2020. Thanks to Quercus Books for the review copy of this book.
