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On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
William Morrow
June 2011
On Sale: May 31, 2011
272 pages
ISBN: 0061936464
EAN: 9780061936463
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 underground 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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