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Fieldwork in Grey Zones : A case study on organ trafficking in the Philippines

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Susanne Lundin
  • Charlotte Kroløkke
  • Michael N. Petersen
  • Elmi Muller

Summary, in English

In this chapter I present a multi-sited fieldwork set in the Philippines that examines trade in organs from living individuals. The organ commerce generally involves organs harvested from living persons. Since humans have two kidneys and can survive with one, it is primarily kidneys that are transplanted, but also illegally traded. Here, my focus is solely on kidney transplantation. The ambition is to capture some fundamental features of what enables transplants in society's legal and moral outskirts, that is to follow the specific question, in Nordstrom͛s sense (2004:13) about what makes organ trade work as well as what social anthropologists Lawrence Cohen and Nancy Scheper Huges term the ͚Rotten Trade͛ (Cohen and Scheper-Hughes 2009). The method is primarily ethnography, making use of observations and interviews.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2016-09-01

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Global Bodies in Grey Zones : Health, Hope, Bioeconomy

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

African Sun Media

Ämne

  • Ethnology

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • The Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-1-928357-19-3