Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood
By Donna Dickenson
One World £16.99, 320 pages

“When human tissue is an investment opportunity for Richard Branson,” writes Donna Dickenson, “you know it’s become just as much an object of commerce as mobile phones, CDs or train tickets. Virgin’s decision in February 2007 to set up a new business in umbilical cord blood banking is just another example of body shopping.”