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A review by adamgolden
The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers by Scott Carney
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(4/5★)
In The Red Market, journalist Scott Carney travels around the world attempting to shed light on the suspicious anonymity and covert operations that fuel what is know as "The Red Market". Ever wonder where that human skeleton in your biology class originated from? Or why there isn't a trail of information that tells you where donated blood and organs hail from? Even less gruesome human commodities, like hair for weaves and wigs, have an interesting backstory to them that Carney delves into deeply in this book. Considering the medical advancements in the last 100 years, it'll be interesting to see if this market even exists in half that time, what with organ/tissue 3-D printing and other medicinal technologies.
In The Red Market, journalist Scott Carney travels around the world attempting to shed light on the suspicious anonymity and covert operations that fuel what is know as "The Red Market". Ever wonder where that human skeleton in your biology class originated from? Or why there isn't a trail of information that tells you where donated blood and organs hail from? Even less gruesome human commodities, like hair for weaves and wigs, have an interesting backstory to them that Carney delves into deeply in this book. Considering the medical advancements in the last 100 years, it'll be interesting to see if this market even exists in half that time, what with organ/tissue 3-D printing and other medicinal technologies.