Hazel Inglis/ Global Crime/ 9/2/08
My topic is global crime and I choose an article on organ trafficking. An American named Nancy Scheper-Hughes started an organization called Organs Watch after she heard about a case in Brazil where a woman went in for minor surgery and came out missing an organ. The article explains the different aspects of the crime. There is a whole “body mafia” that is international; there are people with the title organ brokers. Some people willing sale their organs, some are forces to, and some are not aware that they are until after the fact; the people that willing sale their organs are desperate for money and are in a place where sale organs is an option. The countries talked about in this article where Israel, Turkey, Romania, Moldova, Brazil, and Russia.
I have heard about organ trafficking over the years on different TV shows, news articles, and different classes. I think that it is pretty scary. I cannot imagine living in a place where you have to worry about if you will lose an organ during an operation. I also feel sorry for the people that are the situation where they have to sale an organ for money. It makes me wonder about all the dishonest people that make organ trafficking possible and the wealth people that end up with the organ.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/global_crime_report/crime/kidney.shtml
4 comments:
I agree that we should not have to live in a world where we may wake up from surgery missing an organ. That is why there are laws against the sale of organs and waiting list. It is pretty scary that there is such a "mafia" that takes advantage of the poor or intimate people to sale organs.
Wow I couldnt imagine going to doctor for minor surgery and come out missing an organ. I'm still really confused on how this could happen without the patients constent. I also I think its ridiculous that we live in a soceity like this. I've never heard of organ trafficking before now and now I'm very curious to find out more about it.
that article is disturbing. in some movies you see someone in a tub of ice wake up with a scar across their stomach to later find out that their kidney is missing. what is even more disturbing is that people are willing to sell their own organs. i do understand their perspective though. if you're poor enough, you'll pretty much do anything.
Selling your organs is an ethical problem. I know people give their organs away to friends and loved ones who who die without them but putting them up for sale to anyone is a whole different story. I wonder if these thefts are not reported, or they just happen in countries that do not have a government or police system strong enough to do anything about it.
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