The Organ Thieves The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South

About the author

Chip Jones has been reporting for nearly thirty years for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Roanoke Times, Virginia Business magazine, and other publications. As a reporter for The Roanoke Times, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Pittston coal strike. He is the former communications director of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, which is where he first discovered the heart-stopping story in The Organ Thieves, now the winner of the Library of Virginia’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. It has become an invaluable resource for medical schools and other organizations exploring the history of racism and current inequities in America’s healthcare system. For more, visit ChipJonesBooks.com.

Product details

• Authors: Chip Jones, Chip Jones
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.02.2022
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781982107536
• ISBN: 978-1-9821-0753-6
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 431 g
• Subjects: True Crime, Black Lives Matter, TRUE CRIME / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Surgery / Transplant, Black, History of Medicine, Social discrimination & inequality, Deep South, Bellevue, Christiaan Barnard, NAACP, Jim Crow, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Transplant Surgery, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Stolen, Black History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Black & Asian Studies, Social discrimination and social justice, Relating to African American / Black American people, Medical History, Get Out, African American History, Devil in the White City, medical mystery, Southern history, Racial inequality, Virginia history, investigative journalism, medical malpractice, erik larson, Rebecca Skloot, racism in medicine, the immortal life of henrietta lacks, fevers, feuds, Politico, award winning journalist, The Radium Girls, surgical history, Medical Apartheid, just medicine, medical bondage, the rope, medicinal law, medicinal history, Racist Doctors and Organ Thieves, Tuskegee-syphilis experience, charles v jones, and diamonds