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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 journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker's death and how he was used as a human guinea pig withoutIn 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 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.(less)