Organ Economy. Organ Trafficking in Moldova and Israel.
Lundin, Susanne LU
(2012)
In Public Understanding of Science
21(2).
p.226-241
- Abstract
- Organ trafficking is an illegal means of meeting the shortage of transplants. The activity flourishes for several interacting reasons, such as medical needs, poverty and criminality. Other factors are fundamental conceptual structures such as the dream of the regenerative body as well as the view of the body as an object of utility and an object of value. The article aims to go behind the normative discussions that usually surround organ trafficking. Why this is happening, and what the societal consequences are, is examined through ethnographic fieldwork. The focus is on the shadow economies that govern existence and in which people, goods, weapons, money, bodies, etc. constitute components of the global market.
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- author
- Lundin, Susanne
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- ethnography, organ trafficking, identity, shadow economy
- in
- Public Understanding of Science
- volume
- 21
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 226 - 241
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
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- wos:000301191900009
- scopus:84857858085
- ISSN
- 0963-6625
- DOI
- 10.1177/0963662510372735
- project
- The body as a gift, resource and commodity: Organ transplantation in the Baltic and East Europe region
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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