Decades after a Black man’s heart was used in a transplant without his family’s consent, Virginia lawmakers express “profound regret.” That matters.
When Gayle Turner testified before Virginia lawmakers, she knew they had previously failed to pass a resolution that offered an apology for the unethical use of Black bodies by medical institutions. This year, when the resolution appeared in front of lawmakers again, she hoped to compel them to act.
She told them Virginia had an opportunity to “lead the nation in truth telling and addressing racial inequalities in health care.” But in recent years, a fuller story of how that transplant came to take place has emerged, and it shows this: surgeons taking a Black laborer’s heart without his family’s consent and placing it in a White businessman. That fuller story — which I shared with you in an— was of his family learning from a mortician, not doctors, that he was missing his heart and kidneys.
: There were too many regrettable stories, and he worried there would be no end to these resolutions.Thompson described the recent passage of the resolution as an important “first step in addressing health-care disparities.” The resolution acknowledges not only what happened to Tucker but also other acts committed through the Medical College of Virginia. It notes how practitioners in need of cadavers employed grave robbers to dig up bodies in Black cemeteries, and how an examination of human remains that were discovered during an excavation revealed most were of African descent, and at least nine were children.
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