The red market
by Scott M. Carney, Scott Carney · first published 2011
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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 tracing the lucrative and deeply secretive trade in human bodies and body parts. 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 sur
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Meanwhile, low-income Indians sell their kidneys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eny6D-7f_rc The Red Market is an interesting/disturbing book on the organ trade, here's an NPR interview with the author http://www.npr.org/2011/06/10/136931615/blood-bones-and-orga...
on “Thousands of Low-Income Americans 'Donate' Blood Plasma to For-Profit Centers” ↗…As sorry as it makes me, at least the profiteering in this method will provide correct nutrition for children. I bought this yesterday because the author did an AMA on Reddit: http://www.amazon.com/Red-Market-Brokers-Thieves-Traffickers...
on “Chinese cows (GM) to produce human milk. To be sold in 3 years.” ↗…Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan * Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World Has Failed by Thomas W. Dichter * The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers Some outstanding questions I have: * I've read there is a "negative correlation with success" when many…
on “Meanwhile, just East of Silicon Valley, in Tupelo Mississippi...” ↗