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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 exposé 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 up to $10,000. As journalist Annie Cheney found while reporting on this subject over the course of three years, when there’s that much money to be made with no federal regulation, there are all sorts of shady (and fascinating) characters who are willing to employ questionable practices—from deception

Author

Annie Cheney

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780739475041

Subjects

True Crime, Medical, Science

Rating

3.75 / 5 (193 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14