The Red Market

In Inside the Business of Selling Human Body Parts, Wired, Feb. 2011, at 112, Scott Carney provides a fascinating look at methods of obtaining body parts, both legal and illegal, and the associated costs.

The items discussed include:

• blood
• hair
• corneas
• hearts
• eggs
• livers
• kidneys
• womb rentals
• plastinates
• ligaments & bones
• skin, and
• skeletons.