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An in-depth report that takes readers on a shocking tour by having a macabre global underworld where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market.Investigative journalist Scott Carney has put in five years on the floor tracing the profitable and deeply secretive trade in real human bodies and body parts - a huge hidden current economic climate known as the "red market". From the horrifying to the ridiculous, he discovers its various forms: an Indian village nicknamed "Kidneyvakkam" because the majority of its residents have sold their kidneys for cash; unscrupulous grave robbers who take human bones from cemeteries, morgues, and funeral pyres for anatomical skeletons used in Western medical institutions and labs; a historical temple that makes money reselling the mane of its devotees to wig makers in the us -to the tune of $6 million annually. The Red Market reveals the rise, street to redemption, and resurgence of this multibillion-dollar underground trade through background: from early on medical review and modern colleges to poverty-ravaged Eurasian villages and high-tech American labs; from body snatchers and surrogate mothers to skeleton traders and the poor who sell body parts to make it through. While local and international police have cracked down on the market, advances in research have increased the demand for real human muscle - ligaments, kidneys, even rented space in women's wombs - giving little room to consider the moral dilemmas natural in the flesh-and-blood trade. By becomes tragic, voyeuristic, and thought-provoking, The Red Market can be an eye-opening, surreal check out a little-known global industry and its implications for those our lives.
