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Organ trafficking. An ethnographic study on the selling of organs in Moldova and Israel.

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Author

Editor

  • Mike Bos
  • Jan van Busschbach
  • Willem Weimar

Summary, in English

Organ trafficking is an illegal means of meeting the shortage of transplant organs on a global market. Reasons that this activity flourishes include medical needs, poverty and criminality. This article is focused on those who sell their organs. The ambition is to see how their actions are the result of a socio-cultural context as well as how ideas and actions impact the trafficking phenomenon. The discussion revolves around the multifaceted role of the organ sellers – victims as well as actors searching for economic survival strategies

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Publication/Series

Organ Transplantation: Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects. Expanding the European Platform

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Ethnology

Keywords

  • Moldova
  • cultural analyzis
  • organ trafficking
  • ethnography
  • Israel

Conference name

2nd ELPAT Congress Organ Transplantation: Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects: Expanding the European Platform

Conference date

2010-04-17 - 2010-04-20

Conference place

Netherlands

Status

Published

Research group

  • Etnologiska institutionen (LU),