In the Name of Quality and Safety: Commercialization of Human Cells and Tissues

When I read the invitation for the international research symposium called “Globalization and Commodification of the Human Body: A Cannibal Market?”, I hesitated to accept. Professor Jean-Daniel Rainhorn, one of the organizers of the symposium, reassured me: the subtitle referred to “therapeutic cannibalism” and not to “alimentary cannibalism.” But the inertia of my brain made me think of the movie Soylent Green (based on the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison), which I saw in..