organ donation

"Body Shopping" author Donna Dickenson draws a connection between "beauty junkies" and bone thieves, and asks the reader to consider the consequences of transforming the human body into a sellable object.

In a veritable export industry, every year over a thousand organs from India go abroad - most of them to Arab countries - even though the domestic demand is far from met. Seventy-one percent of those supplying the organs are women.