Reddit reviews The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Theives, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers

Point of order: I'm an investigative journalist who has written a book on organ trafficking and done extensive research on the Falun Gong claims. The Chinese openly admit that they use the organs of executed prisoners for transplants, and there have been numerous independent investigations that have shown that those bodies have ended up in a variety of products--from the Bodies exhibits, to tendon and bone transplants to living organs. When I interviewed former Falun Gong prisoners back in 2010, several of them admitted to me that they were blood typed by a team of doctors--presumably to test them for organ compatibility.

I wrote about this, and other sorts of organ trading networks in my book "The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers"

A couple I've enjoyed lately:

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers -

They're both enjoyable reads, not especially boring or academic.

I also second /u/Createx's Freakonomics recommendation. That book was great. Along the same cause and effect theme is The Tipping Point.

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Market-Brokers-Theives-Traffickers/dp/0061936464

They keep you "alive" as long as they can and literally start "harvesting" non-essential organs one at a time till they finally get to the part where they have to stop vital stuff to take it. It's a fucking sadistic process and I think in China it was used more like "This General drank his liver out and this political prisoner is going to be shot in the morning so why not?" At that point it becomes a science project to see how many organs you can take before the guy dies.

If this is something you're interested in, you should check out The Red Market by Scott Carney. It's about all aspects of the trade in human flesh, including organs, blood, hair, eggs, etc. It's really fascinating, and I love the analysis the author provides.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Market-Brokers-Traffickers/dp/0061936464

i dont know if this would fit under gangs and drugs but it would fit under criminal underworld. The book is about the trade of organs,children,skeletons and much much more. The Red Market
.I'm reading this right now and i'm enjoying it.

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The Red Market
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061936464/

Interview with author:
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/10/136931615/blood-bones-and-organs-the-gruesome-red-market

Excerpt from Book:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/red-market-excerpt/

Currently in Europe:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kosovo-organ-trafficking-scandal-widens-8604567.html

Organ Trafficking In The US

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/nyregion/30organs.html?pagewanted=all

http://mobile.slate.com/articles/life/faithbased/2009/07/organ_failure.html

Etc etc.