Scott Carney

“People don't go to a transplant center to buy medical services: They go to buy organs.”

“I weigh just a little under two hundred pounds have brown hair blue eyes and a full set of teeth. As far as I know my thyroid gland pumps the right hormones into the twelve pints of blood that circulate in my arteries and veins. At six feet and two inches I have long femurs and tibias with solid connective tissue. Both my kidneys function properly and my heart runs at a steady clip of eighty-seven beats per minute. All in I figure I'm worth about 250 000.”

“Are markets for body parts something that exist only on the fringes of international commerce. How many ways can there be to sell a human body?”