Body Brokers Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains

Name: Body Brokers Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
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ISBN: 9780767917346

ISBN-10: 0767917340

ISBN-13: 9780767917346

Edition: 2006

Authors: Annie Cheney

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" You are a little soul carrying around a corpse." -- Epictetus " Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow." -- "Matthew 24: 28" "Body Brokers" is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative expose of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains. While the government has controls on organs and tissue meant for transplantation, these " body brokers" capitalize on the myriad other uses for dead bodies that receive no federal…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.87" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

ANNIE CHENEY’s magazine work has appeared inHarper’sandMy Generation. HerHarper’sarticle that is the basis of this book was awarded the 2005 Deadline Club Award for Best Feature Reporting by the Society of Professional Journalists. She has also contributed stories to numerous public radio shows, including NPR’sAll Things Considered. Cheney lives in New York City.



The Main Characters


Human Price List


Introduction



Wilderness



An Ideal Situation



The "Toolers"



"As Soon as You Die, You're Mine"



The Resurrection Men



"Brokered Sounds Bad, Doesn't It?"



The Bone Machine


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography