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This was interesting, but a bit rambly at times. I think I know more about heart transplants than I ever thought I would at this point lol
The Tucker family got such a raw deal here and I'm unsurprised the son refused to speak to the author - they got nothing, not even an apology, for what was clearly negligence, statute of limitations be damned.
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Not what I thought it would be. I figured it go in depth on the case and it was more a history of Medical Schools using cadavers from the beginning of the USA. Took me forever to read.

Thanks Netgalley for the Kindle version of the book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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 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.

At times I felt like I was reading Bill Bryson‘s A Short History of Nearly Everything. This is much more than just the story of Bruce Tucker‘s ultimate gift to medical science. Author Chip Jones takes many side journeys before settling on the duplicity and scandal that rocked The Medical College of Virginia Teaching Hospital. A black man is declared medically dead and his heart is than given to a white recipient without any family consent. 👇🏼

#ARC #NetGalley Interesting so far, but I was expecting more of a first person narrative involving the stolen organ and instead I‘m getting a history lesson in early Richmond, Virginia & the slave trade.

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 106 #bookstoread #tbrpile #bookstagram

If you enjoyed The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, you should read this one.

What seems like a straight forward telling of the true events surrounding the death of Bruce Tucker, ends up delving deeper into racism and the mistreatment of black patients by the medical community.

This book made me angry because of the injustice that took place, but it's a well written, well researched book that I couldn't stop reading.