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The Organ Thieves

Author : Chip Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982107545
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Organ Thieves written by Chip Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. 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 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. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, “this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice” (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).

The Red Market

Author : Scott Carney
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062079581
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Red Market written by Scott Carney and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported….A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities.” —Michael Largo, author of Final Exits Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads readers on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market. As gripping as CSI and as eye-opening as Mary Roach’s Stiff, Carney’s The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and child trafficking, raising issues and exposing corruptions almost too bizarre and shocking to imagine.

Organ Theft Legends

Author : Véronique Campion-Vincent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604737387
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Organ Theft Legends written by Véronique Campion-Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching exploration of the sources of gruesome tales of bodily harm

The Organ Broker

Author : Stu Strumwasser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628725516
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Organ Broker written by Stu Strumwasser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Organ Broker, named one of five finalists for the 2015 Hammett Prize for literary excellence in the field of crime writing (winner TBA in October of 2016), is the thrilling story of an underground black market organ dealer known as “New York Jack.” For eighteen years Jack has been a “transplant tourism director,” sending wealthy Americans and Europeans in need of kidneys and other organs to third world countries where they would buy them from transplant centers on the take. The death of a client and a newfound relationship lead to a crisis of conscience as he is forced to choose between a two million dollar commission—and participating in a murder. Jack races to South Africa, Brazil, and beyond, just one step ahead of his adversary and the FBI, in search of one small act of redemption. As a disaffected youth in the late eighties, Jack Trayner entered the criminal world, selling coke when he needed money to pay his way through college. Although he later graduated from law school, an opportunity to earn easy money eventually seduced him into the bizarre and illegal black market for organs—a business that some consider horrendous and a small number of others deem to be heroic. The dual nature of this business assuaged Jack’s guilt and allowed him to flourish, yet the death of a client makes what he is doing all too real. The Organ Broker represents Jack’s confession. The international black market sale of organs is very real and operates at this very moment behind closed hospital doors in many cities all around the world. It is a world that most people are only vaguely aware exists, and few of us know much, if anything, about, until now—in the pages of the confession of New York Jack. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Transgression in Korea

Author : Juhn Young Ahn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053779
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Transgression in Korea written by Juhn Young Ahn and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges our understanding of transgression-- its causes, goals, and motives-- across a comprehensive reading of South Korean media

Scarce Goods

Author : Tom Koch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313390800
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Scarce Goods written by Tom Koch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1841 the American sailing ship William Brown struck an iceberg. About half of the passengers and all of the crew were saved in two small, open boats. The next night, half of the passengers in the larger long-boat were thrown overboard because the boat was overfull. This was the first case of lifeboat ethics, of hard choices in the face of scarcity. Since then the question has been who should die so that others, equally needy, might live? Both the case of the William Brown and the ethics it spawned have been used in recent years to describe the problem of health care rationing generally, and organ transplantation specifically. Koch reexamines and reinterpretes the paradigm case of lifeboat ethics, the story of the William Brown, not as an unavoidable tragedy, but as an avoidable series of errors. Its relation to more general issues of distributive justice are then considered. The lessons learned from both the historical review and its application to distributive principles are then applied to the problem of graft organ distribution in the United States. Through the use of maps, the problem of organ distribution is considered at a range of scales, from the international to the urban. The contextual issues become more evident as one moves from international to hemispheric, fron national to regional, and then local systems. Finally, Koch reviews the lessons in light of other problems of distribution in the face of scarcity. The central lesson-that scarcity is exacerbated where it is not in fact created by our distributive programs-is explored thoroughly. The result is no good choices for anyone and the continuation of the scarcity that for most seems inevitable, but, from the evidence provided, is itself an outcome of inequalities of distribution at different scales of society. Of particular interest to students, scholars, and policymakers involved with issues of planning and health care economics, medical geography, and concepts of justice.

The Organ Thieves

Author : Chip Jones
Publisher : Gallery/Jeter Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1982107529
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Organ Thieves written by Chip Jones and published by Gallery/Jeter Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. 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 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. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, The Organ Thieves is a story that resonates now more than ever, when issues of race and healthcare are the stuff of headlines and horror stories.

Dome City Blues

Author : Jeff Edwards
Publisher : Stealth Books
ISBN 13 : 0983008582
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Dome City Blues written by Jeff Edwards and published by Stealth Books. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles: 2063 David Stalin was one of the best detectives in the business, running head-to-head with data-jackers, organ thieves, and the tech-enhanced gangs who ruled the shadowy streets of Los Angeles. He could do no wrong, until what seemed like an easy case got out of control, and left his wife dead among the abandoned ruins of old LA. After four years of self-imposed retirement, David suddenly finds himself back on the job, struggling to unravel a crime far worse than murder. This time, he’s not the hunter. As he’s about to discover, the past isn’t finished with him yet…

The Desert Thieves

Author : Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442486015
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Desert Thieves written by Franklin W. Dixon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hardy Boys join their father on a trip to Arizona’s magnificent Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument—a trip that becomes dangerous as they set out to find the black marketeers who are stealing rare cacti.

The Geography of Madness

Author : Frank Bures
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612193730
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Madness written by Frank Bures and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some men become convinced—despite what doctors tell them—that their penises have, simply, disappeared. Why do people across the world become convinced that they are cursed to die on a particular date—and then do? Why do people in Malaysia suddenly “run amok”? In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures investigates these and other “culture-bound” syndromes, tracing each seemingly baffling phenomenon to its source. It’s a fascinating, and at times rollicking, adventure that takes the reader around the world and deep into the oddities of the human psyche. What Bures uncovers along the way is a poignant and stirring story of the persistence of belief, fear, and hope.

The Gift of Life

Author : Traci Graf
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 1770854150
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Life written by Traci Graf and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Organ transplants are a very controversial and unique area of medicine. Those of us who work as Transplant Coordinators were frequently referred to by hospital staff as 'organ vultures' behind our backs, but also many times within earshot. I felt this reference to extremely ugly birds was unfair and short sighted. I did say once in a while to a difficult staff person, 'if your kid needed a transplant wouldn't you hope that someone was out there being as ethically aggressive about finding an organ as they can?' That usually shut them up quickly." -- from the Foreword One of the miracles of modern medicine is the ability of surgeons to transplant organs. Often, it's the only way to save the life of a person whose own kidneys, lungs, liver or heart are failing. But with barely 2 percent of critically ill patients suitable for organ donation, the demand far exceeds the number of organs that become available. The Gift of Life is about the remarkable world of organ transplant coordinators, profiles of the men and women who locate and arrange for the donation of organs from those who are dying and wish to live on in others' bodies through this selfless gift. Traci Graf tells the riveting story of this unique and demanding branch of medicine. Transplant coordinators review the medical files and charts on all patients whose condition is so severe that they are not expected to live. Their task is to convince the patient (or the patient's family) to allow organs to be donated immediately upon death. The transplant coordinator works to saves lives by finding and obtaining consent for as many organ donations as possible. In The Gift of Life, transplant coordinator Traci Graf recounts the stress, drama and joy of working long hours dealing with emotionally distraught family members and overworked medical staff, and the emotional toll of a job that means the difference between life and death for the recipients. Packed with riveting first person narrative, The Gift of Life will appeal to anyone interested in modern medical practice and the lives and challenges faced by nurses and doctors who work to offer critically ill patients the gift of life thanks to donors' foresight and generosity.

Organ Theft Legends

Author : Véronique Campion-Vincent
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9781578065936
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Organ Theft Legends written by Véronique Campion-Vincent and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching exploration of the sources of gruesome tales of bodily harm

New Organs Within Us

Author : Aslihan Sanal
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822349124
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book New Organs Within Us written by Aslihan Sanal and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul.

The Martians Have Landed!

Author : Robert E. Bartholomew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486716
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Martians Have Landed! written by Robert E. Bartholomew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th century to the 21st century, including hoaxes perpetrated via newspapers, radio, television and cyberspace. From the 1835 batmen on the Moon hoax to more recent bird flu scares and Hurricane Katrina myths, this book explores hoaxes that highlight the impact of the media on our lives and its tendency to sensationalize. Most of the hoaxes covered occurred in the United States, though incidents from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia are featured as well. Several are global in scope, revealing the power global media wields.

Embodied Injustice

Author : Mary Crossley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108901468
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Injustice written by Mary Crossley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black people and people with disabilities in the United States are distinctively disadvantaged in their encounters with the health care system. These groups also share harsh histories of medical experimentation, eugenic sterilizations, and health care discrimination. Yet the similarities in inequities experienced by Black people and disabled people and the harms endured by people who are both Black and disabled have been largely unexplored. To fill this gap, Embodied Injustice uses an interdisciplinary approach, weaving health research with social science, critical approaches, and personal stories to portray the devastating effects of health injustice in America. Author Mary Crossley takes stock of the sometimes-vexed relationship between racial justice and disability rights advocates and interrogates how higher disability prevalence among Black Americans reflects unjust social structures. By suggesting reforms to advance health equity for disabled people, Black people, and disabled Black people, this book lays a crucial foundation for intersectional, cross-movement advocacy to advance health justice in America.

Property Law

Author : Joseph William Singer
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1543838545
Total Pages : 1781 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Property Law written by Joseph William Singer and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 1781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Learn more about Connected eBooks. This hugely successful materials-and-problems book is acclaimed for its textual clarity, evenhanded perspective, and contemporary, up-to-date character. Easily distinguished from other property casebooks for its plain-language descriptions of legal doctrine; explanations of the social ramifications of our system of property law; emphasis on statutory and regulatory interpretation; comprehensive treatment of public accommodations and fair housing law, tribal property issues, and property in human bodies; and use of the problem method to teach legal reasoning and lawyering skills. Streamlined for more accessible teaching, the Eighth Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect significant changes in the law of property, including in responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, in intellectual property, housing discrimination, regulatory takings, and more. Key Features: Updated to reflect significant changes in the law of property to help professors keep current and be aware of emerging disputes Streamlined to assist in making teaching from the casebook more accessible, without sacrificing coverage and depth New materials and problems have been added in an array of areas, including: The importance of race and slavery in shaping property law and distribution The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on several core areas of property law Growing questions about the balance between public accommodations and religious liberty, including Masterpiece Cakeshop, Inc. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 138 S. Ct. 1719 (2018) and its aftermath Emerging caselaw on the rights of people experiencing homelessness; Shifts in property rights emerging from marriage and non-marital intimate relationships; New materials on the law and practice of trusts and the impact of reproductive technologies Recent developments in tribal sovereignty disputes, including McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) Developments in intellectual property, including in copyright and fair use Shifts in fair housing law, including developments involving landlord responsibility for tenant-to-tenant discriminatory harassment Recent Supreme Court developments in the realm of regulatory takings, including Murr v. Wisconsin, 137 S.Ct. 1933 (2017), Knick v. Township of Scott, 139 S. Ct. 2162 (2019); and Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (to be decided by the end of this Term) Professors and students will benefit from: Clear, concise, accessible coverage of core property doctrines, through caselaw, statutes, and regulatory materials Fully updated engagement with contemporary controversies in our system of property; and Excellent opportunities for problem- and exercise-based learning in every section

CRIME PREVENTION

Author : John Corbett
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578021803
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book CRIME PREVENTION written by John Corbett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to inform and educate the public on ways to prevent the likelihood of being a victim of a crime. Crime is one of the major threats to any civilized society. Many people are victims of crimes because they are not familiar with many forms of crimes. Arm yourself with knowledge from this book. Knowledge of various crimes, scams and fraud is the best prevention.