A Business Where Bodies Are Butchered, Packaged and Sold

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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