Buy Me a Pound of Flesh: China's Sale of Death Row Organs on the Black Market and What Americans Can Learn from it

28 Pages Posted: 4 Feb 2008

Abstract

When terminally ill patients in the U.S. face a shortage of transplantable organs, some turn desperately to the international black market. China has capitalized on America's organ shortage by harvesting body parts from its death row prisoners, often without the prisoners' consent, and selling them to American citizens. This comment examines the organ trade between China and the U.S., argues why it must be stopped, and proposes an open market for organ commodification within U.S. borders to counter China's dangerous and inhumane black market.

Keywords: organ trade, black market, China, organ commodification, organ sale

Suggested Citation

Woan, Sunny, Buy Me a Pound of Flesh: China's Sale of Death Row Organs on the Black Market and What Americans Can Learn from it. Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1089229

Sunny Woan (Contact Author)

Santa Clara University ( email )

500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
United States

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