When the country still struggled with segregation, particularly in the South, some unusual practices began to emerge. One was called “ghost surgery”—a white patient undergoing surgery would be greeted and anesthetized by a white doctor, only to have a black doctor actually perform the surgery without the patient’s knowledge.

Deborah Johnson gives your audience an inside look at this little known practice. She shares real accounts of ghost surgery in the post-Civil War South, and explains the reasons the medical community allowed this to happen.

CREDENTIALS: Deborah Johnson is the author of several novels. Her latest release is THE AIR BETWEEN US.

AVAILABILITY: Nationwide by arrangement
and via telephone
CONTACT: Shatima Washington, (212) 207-7061 (NY); shatima.washington@harpercollins.com