Body brokers: Book Guide, Author and Facts
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"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse." --Epictetus "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow." --Matthew 24:28 Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative expose of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts. Every year human corpses meant for anatomy classes, burial, or cremation find their way into the hands of a shadowy group of entrepreneurs who profit by buying and selling human remains. While the government has controls on organs and tissue meant for transplantation, these "body brokers" capitalize on the myriad other uses for dead bodies that receive no federal oversight whatsoever: commercial seminars to introduce new medical gadgetry; medical research studies and training courses; and U.S. Army land-mine explosion tests. A single corpse used for these purposes can generate
Quick facts about Body brokers
- Title: Body brokers
- Author: Annie Cheney
- First published: 2006
- Genre: commerce, moral and ethical aspects, tissue and organ procurement
- OpenLibrary ID: OL5851338W
Where to read Body brokers
Body brokers by Annie Cheney is widely available in print, ebook and audiobook editions from major retailers and libraries.
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What is Body brokers about?
"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse." --Epictetus "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow." --Matthew 24:28 Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative expose of the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and sel
Who wrote Body brokers?
Body brokers was written by Annie Cheney.
When was Body brokers published?
Body brokers was first published in 2006.
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