The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Scott Carney
Journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, with contributing "Wired" editor and award-winning journalist Carney, where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market.
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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 and labs; an ancient temple that makes money selling the hair of its devotees to wig makers in America--to the tune of $6 million annually.
The Red Market reveals the rise, fall, and resurgence of this multibillion-dollar under-ground trade through history, from early medical study and modern universities to poverty-ravaged Eurasian villages and high-tech Western labs; from body snatchers and surrogate mothers to skeleton dealers and the poor who sell body parts to survive. While local and international law enforcement have cracked down on the market, advances in science have increased the demand for human tissue--ligaments, kidneys, even rented space in women's wombs--leaving little room to consider the ethical dilemmas inherent in the flesh-and-blood trade. At turns tragic, voyeuristic, and thought-provoking, The Red Market is an eye-opening, surreal look at a little-known global industry and its implications for all our lives.
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- Title The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
- Author Scott Carney
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York:
- Date 2011-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061936463 / 0061936464
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.56 x 5.84 x 1.04 in (21.74 x 14.83 x 2.64 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Organ trafficking
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010047807
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.15
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- Booklist, 05/15/2011, Page 6
- Books & Culture, 07/01/2012, Page 33
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2011, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 03/21/2011, Page 0
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