Tag: transplant tourism

• The commodification of body parts as an exploitative practice that oppresses the poor

  

  Introduction  The corporate preying on body parts, and the lucrative market that has unfolded under its commodification, created a multi-billion-dollar trade industry that threatens the lives, social relationships and economic standings of those especially ill-equipped to bear them (Sharp 2006). This paper investigates the impact of transplant tourism on the most desperate individuals of poorer countries, by looking into…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  america, black market, body, commodification, donor, ethics, harvest, isolation, kidney, medical, organ, poor, poverty, rich, sellers, sharp, social, tourism, transplant, transplant tourism