'Naomi Pfeffer's Insider Trading provides a compelling insight into the organisations, practices and forms of exchange that transformed "cadaver stuff" into crucial raw materials for modern medicine.'—Duncan Wilson, author of The Making of British Bioethics
~Duncan Wilson
'Looking beyond the ethical and conceptual reflection on transplant medicine, Naomi Pfeffer’s absorbing history raises the curtain on tissue economies at large. It is a monument to ingenuity, tracking convergence and divergence between the US and the UK across the last century. This is a story of pioneering inventiveness, of motives, misunderstandings and mistakes, of catastrophic consequences and missed opportunities – human endeavour as usual. And, through its insistent documentation, this powerful book raises questions we could not have asked before about what we do to, with and for the body.'
-- Marilyn Strathern, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
~Marilyn Strathern
“In this pacy, detailed chronicle, Naomi Pfeffer reveals how hundreds of products are traded in US and UK markets, from skin for dressing leg ulcers (plastic-packed like American cheese) to the ground bone mixed into fixative for prosthetic limbs.”—Nature
~Nature