The air is cold, sterile, and smells of ozone. The hum is not from servers, but from industrial freezers. The most valuable commodity in this room isn't gold or data; it's "human plasma, rare tissue, a strand of DNA" .Investigative journalist Jack S. Martin pulls back the curtain on "bio-capitalism" -a hidden, multi-billion dollar shadow economy where the human body itself has become the ultimate raw material.Flesh Economies is a shocking investigation that follows the money trail, revealing how profit is being extracted from our very biology. This book explores: * The Blood Brokers: The "plasma pipeline" that connects the veins of the poor to the profits of pharmaceutical giants.The Tissue Trade: What really happens to a body after death, and how "body brokers" harvest and sell parts for medical research and training.The Fertility Market: The high-stakes, emotionally charged business of "The Egg and the Womb".The Genetic Gold Rush: How companies are mining your DNA data and turning your genetic code into a tradable asset.The Clinical Trial Economy: The unseen world of "rent-a-bodies" who are paid to test the drugs of tomorrow.This is the new frontier of commerce, a world built on a chilling question: What is the exact price of a human life, and who is collecting the check?