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Gurtner, Geoffrey, 212

Guzman, Juan, 231–32

Gwong Detention Center, 86–87

Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, 97–98, 105

hair harvesting, 220, 221–29

Haiti, adoption scandals, 96

Hardesty, Loretta, 230, 231–32, 238

Hare, William, 48–49

Harvard Medical School, 53

Hassina, Alma, 133

heart transplants, 11–12

hemoglobin, 155

Henan drug trial, 192–94

hepatitis, 10, 165, 168, 170

Hiranandani Hospital, 142, 148–49

HIV/AIDS, 162–63, 165, 169, 193–94, 202

Hoksbergen, René, 105

human bodies

as commodities, 4, 14, 205–6

man vs. meat, 1–19

monetary value of, 1–2, 5–6

story of Emily’s body, 21–36

human bone factories. See bone factories

human cloning, 206–7

human egg harvesting. See egg harvesting

human growth hormone (HGH), 207–8

human kidneys. See kidney prospecting

human life span, 200

Human Studies Review Board (HSRB), 189

hydrochloric acid, 42, 43

hyperstimulation syndrome (HSS), 126

iChild, 102–3

India

adoption scandals. See adoptions

author’s start in, 15–17

blood farms. See blood farms

bone factories. See bone factories

clinical trials, 188–92

egg harvesting, 116–17

Emily’s death and body, 21–23

hair harvesting, 221–29

human remains export ban (1985), 40–41, 44n, 52, 55

kidney prospecting. See kidney prospecting

surrogacy tourism. See surrogacy tourism

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 142, 147

Indian Drug Control General, 189

Indian Ocean tsunami (2004), 61–62

IndUShealth, 67

informed consent, 11, 40, 58, 189, 193–94

inmates. See prisoners

Institut Marquès, 110, 127–29

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 179

international adoptions. See adoptions

International IVF&PGD Centre, 117–21

International Organization for Standardization (ISO), 78–79

Iran, 81–82, 89

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 207

Israel, 18, 113, 127

Iswarya Fertility Centre, 142–43

Ivanovina, Galina, 119–21

IVF (in vitro fertilization), 111–13, 114, 117, 125, 127–28

Jayakumar, Ramani, 101

Jindal, Seema, 149–50

Jordan, Kristen, 139, 141, 148–49

Kansas blood banks, 168–69

Karkhanis, Amit, 146, 148

Karppiah, K., 73

Kasturba Gandhi Hospital, 191

Kennedy, Samuel, 53

Khan, Javed Ahmed, 54–55

Khullar, Mridu, 214

kidney prospecting, 17, 61–89

in China, 82–89

economic issues, 12, 66–68, 78–81, 84

impression of scarcity and, 76–79

privacy ethic and, 73–75

social side effects of selling kidneys, 6–7, 7n

transplant lists, 12, 66–67, 76–79, 89

Tsunami Nagar refugee camp, 61–65, 68–74

kidney waiting lists, 12, 66–67, 76–79

Kilgore, Charles, 53, 54

Kilgore, Craig, 50, 53–54

Kilgore International, 50, 53–54

Kilgour, David, 82–84, 88

Knowlton, Charles, 46–47

Koundouros, Savvas, 120–21, 125–26, 197–98, 206, 219

Kumar, Rajeev, 58

Laksh Hotel, 144–45

Landsteiner, Karl, 8–9

Laogai Research Foundation, 83

L-cystine, 224

Letrozole, 189–91

Levitra trial, 175–78, 182–86

Life (magazine), 230, 232

Liston, Robert, 203

Long for this World (de Grey), 200–201

McCulloch, Ernest Armstrong, 199

McGee, Glenn, 117, 122, 133

Madonna, 96

Mahabharata, 223

Malaysian Social Services (MSS), 90, 93–96, 98–100, 104

Mandal, Rubina, 140–41

Manoharan, G. P., 93–94

man vs. meat, 1–19

Matas, David, 82–84

medical grafts, 40, 201

medical schools, and grave robberies, 45–47, 52–53

Meir, Yehonnatan, 133

miracle cures, 199–201

money issues. See economic issues

Montuschi, Olivia, 129

Mother Jones, 16, 100, 107

Murphy, Keith, 215–18

Muthuvel, Arun, 143

Nath, Kedar, 171–73

National Organ Transplant Act, 11, 78

Nepal, 138, 170

Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), 207

9/11 terrorist attacks (2001), 167n

Northwick Park Hospital, 176

Obama, Barack, 198

Oliveras, Joseph, 128–29

Oprah (TV show), 135–36, 145

Organovo, 196, 215–18

organ printing, 196, 216–17

organ prospecting. See kidney prospecting

organ scarcity, 76–79

organ transplant lists, 11–13, 66–67, 76–79, 89

Osta International, 57–58

ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), 126

Pagari, Chaya, 148

paid donations, 67, 76–77, 80–82, 164–70

Pal, Manoj, 42–43

Pandey, Chakrapani, 171–73

Parikh, O. P., 162–63

Patel, Nayna, 135–36, 139, 141–42, 144–45, 147–50

Pauquette Adoption Services, 101–4

penicillin, 200

Peterson, Beth, 102–3

Petra Clinic, 118–21, 125

Petryna, Adriana, 181–82

Pfizer, 176

pharmaceutical trials. See clinical trials

phases of clinical trials, 184

Philippine Information Agency, 79

Philpott, Sean, 188–89

Pilgrim, David, 103–4

Pislaru, Carmen, 124

pituitary glands, 17, 208

Prasad, Srirupa, 192

Preet Mandir, 103–4

Premier Research Group, 187

prisoners

anatomical skeletons, 49–50

blood donations, 10, 169–70

Chinese kidney harvesting, 82–89

drug trials, 181, 186

privacy issues, 13–14, 15, 17, 73–75, 234. See also donor anonymity

professional guinea pigs. See clinical trials

profit motive, 11–12

in blood donations, 166–70

in clinical trials, 179–80

in internal organ sales, 75, 78, 80, 88–89

in international adoptions, 97, 103

in surrogacy, 141, 146, 149–50

Prozac, 202

Rabo India Finance, 188

racial issues, 7–8, 129–30

Raghupati, K., 101

Raj Impex, 226–28

Ramachandran, K. K. S. R., 64–65

Rana, Sanju, 150

Rao, Nageshwar, 93, 98–100, 105–8, 109

Ravindranath, Dinesh, 95

Red Cross, 166

Reddy, K. C., 80–81

red markets, overview, 5–7

regenerative medicine, 197–219

Reknas Company, 50–51

remy hair, 223–24, 227–29

replacement body parts, 215–18

Reproductive Genetics Institute, 118–19

research subjects. See clinical trials

Rodriguez, Nicole, 129

Ruediger, Christian, 57

Samoa, adoption scandals, 96

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 231–32

Sappol, Michael, 46, 47n, 49

Sarkar, Jayant, 156–57

scarcity, and organ-harvesting network, 76–79

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, 75–77, 81–82