In the race to perform the first human-to-human heart transplant, ethical corners were sometimes cut. An investigative journalist explains how a black man’s heart was harvested without his family’s consent for the first human heart transplant in the South, and how incidents such as this help to explain ongoing African-American distrust of medicine.
Guest:
- Chip Jones, author, The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
ADDITIONAL LINKS:
- Chip Jones Books: The Organ Thieves
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