IN Body Shopping, medical ethicist gives a chilling account of the trade in human body parts. Like a surgeon preparing her tools for an operation, she carefully unpacks troubling stories about organ selling, face transplants and furtive schemes to dupe patients and profit from their tissues. If there was any doubt over whether the human body is a global commodity, Dickenson ably puts it to rest.
The book could not be more timely. Last month, Michael Mastromarino, a former oral surgeon, to pillaging 1800 bodies for bones, ligaments, heart valves, organs and other valuable tissues.…
