Author Talk with Chip Jones, author of "The Organ Thieves"

15feb4:00 pm4:00 pm(GMT-05:00) Author Talk with Chip Jones, author of "The Organ Thieves"Atlee Library, 9212 Rutlandshire Dr

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Meet award-winning author Chip Jones to discuss his penetrating book about injustice and racism in Virginia healthcare: The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South. He will explain how he learned about the theft in 1968 of the heart of a Black factory worker named Bruce Tucker at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, along with the cruel exploitation of other Black people’s bodies from the outset of MCV in the 1800s. He also will bring the story up to date, including how his book forced today’s medical school at VCU to confront its troubling, often inhumane past.

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February 15, 2025 4:00 pm(GMT-05:00)

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