ERC Starting Grant · 2024
The organ trade is a relatively new but neglected crime that is proliferating globally. The trade is prohibited universally, yet, the growing gap between organ supply and demand has led to an ‘illegal’ organ market that converges with altruistic organ procurement systems. In this market, growing numbers of desperate patients from the global north travel to the global south to buy organs, often returning with severe medical complications. Similarly, the growing global economic divide and the rise in conflicts and natural disasters are subjecting increasing numbers of vulnerable organ sellers to physical, psychological and financial exploitation on the organ market. Preliminary scholarly work…
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