The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Theives, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers

His reporting has also appeared on NPR, CBC, BBC, and National Geographic TV, and in Mother Jones, Fast Company, Discover, and Foreign Policy. Scott Carney is an investigative journalist with a decade of experience living and researching in India. He is a contributing editor at Wired magazine. He lives in Long Beach, California.

A Summer Must-Read. cmpm I first heard about The Red Market after reading an intriguing Publisher's Weekly interview [] with author/journo/anthropologist Scott Carney. Based on an investigative journalism series for Mother Jones during 2009 and 2010, Carney delves into the black market trade of the human body - both living and deceased, whole and in part - following a set of circumstances that left him in the guardianship of the corpse of an American. A. Menon said Great investigation into various businesses based on the human body. The Red Market is a fascinating investigation of various businesses based on the human body. It covers lots of different aspects of trading in the human body and explores both the market dynamics as well as the ethical issues surrounding the businesses. The author sheds light where most of us would rather not look and he shows how the various businesses so easily cross borders and race to the bottom of the socio-economic spec. "Behind the Scenes in the medical organ brokers" according to EKBehind the Scenes in the medical organ brokers EK406 One thing for sure, let a market crop up and there will always be someone to fill it no matter what the hidden costs are, after all anything can be excused with the old adage, "Well, if I do not supply it then someone else will!" We apply this to making money with any vice our conscience screams out about and need to excuse, like prostitution, child molestation, drug addition, smoking etc. This is not new as the Nazi officers. 06. One thing for sure, let a market crop up and there will always be someone to fill it no matter what the hidden costs are, after all anything can be excused with the old adage, "Well, if I do not supply it then someone else will!" We apply this to making money with any vice our conscience screams out about and need to excuse, like prostitution, child molestation, drug addition, smoking etc. This is not new as the Nazi officers

--Nature“The Red Market is a thrilling adventure into the global body business, with keen insight into the economics that drive it. Carney knows how to tell a story and digs deeply. Scott Carney investigates both our insatiable need for replacement human parts and the uncanny and often disturbing ways we go about getting them.” (Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail)“The Red Market is an unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported. --The Wall Street JournalMr. Scott Carney takes us on a tremendously reveali

As gripping as CSI and as eye-opening as Mary Roach’s Stiff, Carney’s The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and child trafficking, raising issues and exposing corruptions almost too bizarre and shocking to imagine.. “An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported….A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities.”—Michael Largo, author of Final ExitsAward-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads