Red Market On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers

Name: Red Market On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
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ISBN: 9780061936463

ISBN-10: 0061936464

ISBN-13: 9780061936463

Edition: 2011

Authors: Scott Carney

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An in-depth report that takes readers on a shocking tour through a macabre global underworld where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market Investigative journalist Scott Carney has spent five years on the ground tracing the lucrative and deeply secretive trade in human bodies and body parts-a vast hidden economy known as the "red market." From the horrifying to the ridiculous, he discovers its varied forms: an Indian village nicknamed "Kidneyvakkam" because most of its residents have sold their kidneys for cash; unscrupulous grave robbers who steal human bones from cemeteries, morgues, and funeral pyres for anatomical skeletons used in Western medical schools…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/31/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.54" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface Dead End


Introduction Man Vs. Meat



Body Alchemy



The Bone Factory



Kidney Prosecting



Meet The Parents



Immaculate Conception



Cash On Delivery



Blood Money



Clinical Labor Of Guinea Pigs



Immortal Promises



Black Gold


Afterword Ode To Loretta Hardesty


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index