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The invisible issue of organ laundering
journal contribution
posted on 2016-11-23, 14:04 authored by A. Manzano, Mark MonaghanMark Monaghan, B. Potrata, M. ClaytonGlobal institutions, although suggesting measures to deter organ trafficking, reiterate the lack of official statistics about this illegal trade. In this article, we explore the reasons why organ trafficking remains unreported. We argue that the complex factors that perpetuate invisibility facilitate trafficked organs being "laundered" in the health care systems of the purchaser's country, hindering accurate estimation of the problem. The factors are as follows: (a) issues of globalization, jurisdiction, and law enforcement; (b) the power of health care professionals; (c) the reimbursement of transplantation costs abroad by insurers; (d) ambivalence of the victim status of the sellers; and (e) the buyers as vulnerable offenders.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
TransplantationVolume
98Issue
6Pages
600 - 603Citation
MANZANO, A. ... et al., 2014. The invisible issue of organ laundering. Transplantation, 98 (6), pp.600 - 603.Publisher
© Lippincott Williams & WilkinsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014Notes
This article was published in the journal Transplantation [© Lippincott Williams & Wilkins] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/TP.0000000000000333ISSN
0041-1337Publisher version
Language
- en