Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood by Donna Dickenson
Oneworld Publications; 1 edition | June 1, 2008 | English | ISBN: 185168591X | 240 pages | PDF | 785 kB
Body Shopping offers an unflinching examination of the new economy that has sprung up to take advantage of your body. Our tissues, genes, and organs are becoming, in the words of the head of one pharmaceutical company, ‘the currency of the future’. From the trafficking of women for their eggs to ‘beauty junkies’, Donna Dickenson reveals the myriad and often ingenious ways that body parts are converted into profits.