An in-depth report that takes readers on a shocking tour through a macabre global underworld where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market Investigative journalist Scott Carney has spent five years on the ground tracing the lucrative and deeply secretive trade in human bodies and body parts—a vast hidden economy known as the "red market." From the horrifying to the ridiculous, he discovers its varied forms: an Indian village nicknamed "Kidneyvakkam" because most of its residents have sold their kidneys for cash; unscrupulous grave robbers who steal human bones from cemeteries, morgues, and funeral pyres for anatomical skeletons used in Western medical schools and labs; an ancient temple that makes money selling the hair of its devotees to wig makers in America—to the tune of $6 million annually. The Red Market reveals the rise, fall, and resurgence of this multibillion-dollar underground trade through history, from early medical study and modern universities to poverty-ravaged Eurasian villages and high-tech Western labs; from body snatchers and surrogate mothers to skeleton dealers and the poor who sell body parts to survive. While local and international law enforcement have cracked down on the market, advances in science have increased the demand for human tissue—ligaments, kidneys, even rented space in women's wombs—leaving little room to consider the ethical dilemmas inherent in the flesh-and-blood trade. At turns tragic, voyeuristic, and thought-provoking, The Red Market is an eye-opening, surreal look at a little-known global industry and its implications for all our lives.

作者：斯科特•卡尼（Scott Carney）

美国调查记者，《Wired》杂志特约编辑，报道常见于美国NPR（美国国家公共电台）、加拿大CBC（加拿大广播公司）、英国BBC（英国广播公司）及美国国家地理电视台等频道，以及《Mother Jones》《Fast Compan y》《Discover》《Foreign Policy》等杂志。为调查全球人体器官买卖内幕，在印度等地居住、调查十年之久。目前居住于加利福尼亚州长堤市。

创作的《家长会面》一文曾获2010年佩恩奖（Payne Award）的新闻伦理奖。

译者：姚怡平

台湾省苗栗县人，政大英语系毕业，蒙特瑞国际研究院笔译硕士，现为自由译者。译有《蝴蝶先生》、《生命真正的力量》、《真心就自在》（合译）、《谎言对决》、《20x93 一段跨越年龄的生命对话》、《该死的发明》、《格雷的画像》、《真实谎言》、《你可以吃你的猫吗？》等书。