Controversies and Misconduct in the Body Brokering Industry

In the final part of our series, Zachary Crockett talks to a man with a storied — and controversial — career in the body parts business.

RESOURCES

• "Inside the Largely Unregulated Market for Bodies Donated to Science: 'It's Harder to Sell Hot Dogs on a Cart,'" by Justin Sherman (CBS News, 2023).
• "Bilirakis, Fletcher, Murphy and Tillis Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill to Stop Brokering of Body Parts, Preserve Integrity of Organ Donation Process," press release by the office of Congressman Gus Bilirakis (2023).
• "Sunset Mesa Funeral Home Operators Sentenced to Federal Prison For Illegal Body Part Scheme," press release by the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Colorado (2023).
• "Cashing in on the Donated Dead: The Body Trade," series by Reuters (2017).
• Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Bone$: A Personal Account of a 'Body Broker's' Thirteen Year Journey Through the Legal and Lucrative Body Parts Business, by Philip Guyett (2011).

EXTRAS

• "Cadavers – Part 1," by The Economics of Everyday Things (2023).

SOURCES:

• Philip Guyett, land surveyor and former body broker.