They call themselves body brokers, these men and women who use pliers, saws and motorized saws to harvest corpses donated to science. The liver of a public school janitor was sold to a medical-device company for $607. The torso of a retired bank manager, bought by a Swiss research institute, fetched $3,191. A large Midwestern healthcare system paid $65 for two femoral arteries, one from a church minister. And the lower legs of a union activist were purchased by a Minnesota product-development company for $350 each.
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