The body parts business.

Date:
1993
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Investigates the kidnapping and murder of children in Guatemala, Honduras and Argentina to obtain their organs and tissues for black market transplant sales. Also investigates the transplant market in Moscow where a network of doctors from the city's morgues and hospitals earn foreign currency from the sale of body tissue to the cosmetic industry, and organs for transplant to foreigners. Dr. Bernard Cohen, director of Eurotransplant, a non-profit making co-ordination agency, comments on the growing illegal trade in body parts.

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[Place of publication not identified] : BBC TV, 1993.

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1 videocassette (VHS) (55 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

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