THE discovery four years ago that thousands of organs from dead children had been removed without permission and stored at the Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool, UK, revealed gaping holes in the system by which doctors request consent from relatives for such action. Now a scandal has erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles, in which bodies bequeathed to science have been sold illegally for profit.
A man called Ernest Nelson claims to have paid the university over $700,000 for the privilege of sawing off body parts from hundreds of corpses, which he resold to biomedical clients. According to…
