A disturbing exposé of the lucrative business of procuring, purchasing, and selling human cadavers and body parts describes how bodies meant for academic research, burial, or cremation make their way into the hands of a group of entrepreneurial body brokers who illegally capitalize on the need for human remains. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

It is well known that the numbers of organs that become available each year for transplantation fall far short of the numbers that are actually required. In this boldly argued book James Stacey Taylor contends that, given both this shortage and the desperate poverty that some people endure, it is morally imperative that the current methods of organ procurement be supplemented by a legal, regulated market for human transplant organs purchased from live vendors. Taylor pays particular attention to outlining the implications that recognizing the moral legitimacy of these market transactions in human body parts and reproductive capacities have for public policy.