Tracking the Sale of a Kidney on a Path of Poverty and Hope
RECIFE, Brazil -- When Alberty José da Silva heard he could make money, lots of money, by selling his kidney, it seemed to him the opportunity of a lifetime. For a desperately ill 48-year-old woman in Brooklyn whose doctors had told her to get a kidney any way she could, it was.
Not quite Larry Niven's "organleggers". But not all that far off, either