The state of the international organ trade: a provisional picture based on integration of available information

Shimazono, Y

doi:10.2471/blt.06.039370

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“…Globally in 2005, there were roughly 6,000 heart transplants, 21,000 liver transplants, and 66,000 kidney transplants throughout the year, and this number is expected to grow every year (Shimazono, 2007). Waiting lists are much harder to determine, but the World Health Organization estimates that over 200,000 individuals worldwide are on the kidney transplant waiting list (World Health Organization, 2007).…”

Section: 1) Global Organ Shortage and Traffickingmentioning

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“…With roughly 66,000 kidney transplants in 2005, and this number surely growing since annually, this constitutes an average of around 6,000 cases of human organ trafficking yearly (Shimazono, 2007). So organ trafficking is a real problem that must be addressed.…”

Section: 1) Global Organ Shortage and Traffickingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These individuals are usually motivated by long organ waiting lists in their home country and the lack of an opportunity to buy an organ from another due to their country's prohibition. This is an extensive process that usually involves organ brokers and other health care professionals to manage the procurement of the organ, the exchanging of money, and the scheduling and location of the transplant (Shimazono, 2007). When this practice started to become noticed by government officials, the Iranian Ministry of Health banned all foreign recipients from receiving kidney transplants from Iranian donors, which essentially prevented the practice of transplant tourism in Iran (Ghods and Savaj, 2006).…”

Section: 2) the Iranian Model's Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Does the Iranian model of kidney donation compensation work as an ethical global model?

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“…The access of patients to organ transplantation, however, varies according to their national situations, and is partly determined by the cost of health care, the level of technical capacity and, most importantly, the availability of organs. 5 The shortage in organ supply is also due to lack of awareness and correct knowledge among public, misconceptions, myths and beliefs surrounding organ donation due to religious and cultural barriers leading to hesitancy in donation of human organs. 6 Wig et al stated that there is a need to educate people regarding various aspects of brain death and its immense importance for organ donation.…”

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Knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation and transplantation among undergraduate medical students in North coastal Andhra Pradesh

Ganta

Pamarthi

Prasad

2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Organ transplantation is one of the greatest scientific advances and remains one of the most challenging and complex field of modern medicine. In the USA and UK, the organ donation rate is 26 and 14 per million, whereas in India, it is only 0.34 per million population. Healthcare professionals act as the critical link in the organ procurement process because they are the first individuals to establish relationship with the potential donors' family.Methods: An institution based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among first year undergraduate medical students during November 2017. Convenient sampling method was used to obtain the sample size. Out of 150 students in first year, 136 students fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria were studied.Results: Out of 136 students who participated in the study, 58 (42.6%) were boys and 78 (57.4%) were girls. All the 136 (100%) students had heard about organ donation, but only 24 (17.6%) of them were aware of organ donation associations. Very few students (5, 3.6%) know about any law related to organ donation in India. Mass media like TV, Internet and Newspapers have played a major role in imparting awareness regarding organ donation among students besides relatives and friends. Majority of the students i.e. 104 (76.4%) were ready to donate their organs if need comes and two third of them accepted that they would allow organ donation from a member of their family after Brainstem death.Conclusions: There is a positive attitude of medical students towards organ donation but there is lack of sufficient knowledge on the topic. Improving their knowledge by including organ donation topic in medical curriculum can help to reduce this gap.

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“…This is underscored by the fact that transplant organs (harvested either from living or from deceased donors) are currently available as merchandise on a clandestine (yet thriving) global market: an international organ bazaar. In his book The Red Market, Carney (2011) traces the contours of a multi-billion dollar global organ trafficking, although the actual extent of this world-spanning body shop remains an issue of dispute (Meyer, 2006;Shimazono, 2007;Scheper-Hughes, 2008;Greenberg, 2013).…”

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Transplantation medicine, organ-theft cinema and bodily integrity

Zwart

2016

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Transplantation medicine affects the way we experience ourselves as embodied subjects. Human bodies become aggregates of replaceable and exploitable parts, and potential resources for craving others. Our intimate interior contains items that other subjects lack, so that these organs are transformed into (commodifiable) 'objects of desire'. Clandestine organ markets and the popularity of organ-theft cinema are symptoms of this development. What does it mean for human subjectivity when organs become market commodities? This contemporary issue emerges against the backdrop of a long-standing metaphysical struggle between the traditional Christian view (concerning the inviolable body) and the bio-scientific view (concerning the body as a collection of replaceable parts). I will analyse the ontological repercussions of transplantation medicine from a Lacanian perspective, using organ-theft cinema as a stage on which conflicting and unsettling views of embodiment are enacted, probed and questioned. Three organ-theft movies ( Jésus de Montréal, L'Intrus and Crank 2: high voltage) will be subjected to a Lacanian analysis. The intrusive, dehumanising dimension to organ procurement, which tends to be obfuscated (repressed) in standard bioethical discourse about voluntary donation and human dignity, resurges quite emphatically in organ-transplant cinema. Subjectivity (2016) 9, 151-180.

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The state of the international organ trade: a provisional picture based on integration of available information

Cited by 314 publications

References 21 publications

Does the Iranian model of kidney donation compensation work as an ethical global model?

Does the Iranian model of kidney donation compensation work as an ethical global model?

Knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation and transplantation among undergraduate medical students in North coastal Andhra Pradesh

Transplantation medicine, organ-theft cinema and bodily integrity

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