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Prof. Nancy Scheper-Hughes


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July 2007: More scholars draw the line when it comes to organ sales. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a Berkeley anthropologist -- now in residence at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute -- has documented how wealthy organ brokers exploit the impoverished in places like Moldova and South Africa. She cites a moral parable to which Volokh himself refers in passing, turning it against him: A starving man adrift with others on a raft does not have the right to eat his fellow passengers. Scheper-Hughes suggests there is something of the same 'predatory' aspect to organ sales -- a creepy assertion 'that I have the right to the body of another person, to live.'

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/07/01/why_cant_you_buy_a_kidney_to_save_your_life?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Ideas+Section

February 2007: "Such a system, however, might not work if the state is offering less than the global market, says Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a medical anthropology professor at the University of California at Berkeley and founding director of Organs Watch."

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/culture/~3/88126675/0,72675-0.html

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Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) University of California - Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Organization Feb 11, 2007

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Feb 10, 2011 Trafficking Investigations Put Surgeon in Spotlight

QUOTE: The illicit trade in human organs is a multimillion-dollar business built on paying desperately poor people to extract their organs — mostly kidneys. These organs are then sold and transplanted to wealthier people facing long waits on government-approved lists for legal transplants...in the late 1990s some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army held Serb prisoners in detention centers in Albania and executed them with gunshots to the head to extract organs for shipment to Istanbul.

 New York Times
Jul 01, 2007 Why can't you buy a kidney to save your life? A growing legal movement to recognize a new fundamental right -- 'medical self-defense' -- could bring jarring social changes

QUOTE: There is a growing push in medical, legislative, and legal circles -- both liberal and conservative -- to recognize an expansive new right that some are describing as "medical self-defense." .... A potential landmark case ... could make access to unapproved drugs a full-blown constitutional right.

 Boston Globe
Feb 08, 2007 Indians Buy Organs With Impunity

QUOTE: More than 500 people across the state of Tamil Nadu say they've sold their kidneys to organ brokers, in violation of a ban enacted in 1994. Since then, however, the agency responsible for enforcing the ban has frequently turned a blind eye.

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