Los Angeles, 1984: John Moore, a cancer patient, finds out that his doctor has cultivated, patented and sold his very rare “golden” cells, all without his awareness. So he takes his doctor to court. Guess what? The California Supreme Court decides that Moore can’t really claim his body as his own. Bottom line: our cells, genes…every part of us can be bought and sold.
vThe Man with the Golden Cells travels the troubling road from John Moore’s case through to today’s vibrant global trade of the human body: in Singapore, in Boston, in Paris, in Toronto, the very genes that make up the human body are there to be bought and sold.