"Organ Thieves: The True Shocking Story of the first Heart Transplant in the Segregated South," by Chip Jones, is the 2022-2023 VCU Common Book. Beyond the Organ Thieves tells of the events and programs that have been launched over the past 50 years at the VCU Medical Center since the first heart transplant was performed in 1968.
Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America (2013) by Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman, and Gregory J. Dober
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery (2022) by Paul Craddock
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Lower, Richard (1929-2008)
Hume, David M. (1917-1973)
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Online learning module: Medical Dissection and the East Marshall Street Well
Recorded lecture: The East Marshall Street Well Project: A Story of our Ancestral Remains