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）

美國調查記者，《Wired》雜誌特約編輯，報道常見於美國NPR（美國國傢公共電颱）、加拿大CBC（加拿大廣播公司）、英國BBC（英國廣播公司）及美國國傢地理電視颱等頻道，以及《Mother Jones》《Fast Compan y》《Discover》《Foreign Policy》等雜誌。為調查全球人體器官買賣內幕，在印度等地居住、調查十年之久。目前居住於加利福尼亞州長堤市。

創作的《傢長會麵》一文曾獲2010年佩恩奬（Payne Award）的新聞倫理奬。

譯者：姚怡平

颱灣省苗栗縣人，政大英語係畢業，濛特瑞國際研究院筆譯碩士，現為自由譯者。譯有《蝴蝶先生》、《生命真正的力量》、《真心就自在》（閤譯）、《謊言對決》、《20x93 一段跨越年齡的生命對話》、《該死的發明》、《格雷的畫像》、《真實謊言》、《你可以吃你的貓嗎？》等書。