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The Declaration of Istanbul was created at the Istanbul Summit on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism held from 30 April to 1 May 2008 in Istanbul, Turkey. [1] The Declaration clarifies the issues of transplant tourism, trafficking and commercialism and provides ethical guidelines for practice in organ donation and transplantation. Since ...
Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. [1] [2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems.
For example, many people consider a market in human organs to be a repugnant market [1] or the ability to bet on terrorist acts in prediction market to be repugnant. Others consider the lack of such markets to be even more immoral and uncaring, as trade bans (e.g. in organ transplants [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and terrorism information) [ 5 ] [ 6 ] can ...
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research.. LAS VEGAS — Obteen Nassiri was in need of a new line of work. After ...
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Currently, the organ recipient’s and the organ donor’s insurance (assuming they have insurance) argue about who should cover what, often leaving the donor with huge unpaid bills, particularly ...
Organ harvesting from live people is one of the most frequently discussed debate topic in organ transplantation. The World Health Organization argues that transplantation promote health, but the notion of “transplantation tourism” has the potential to violate human rights or exploit the poor, to have unintended health consequences, and to provide unequal access to services, all of which ...
Researchers, human rights advocates and medical advocacy groups have focused in particular on the volume of organ transplants performed in China; the disparity between the number of transplants and known sources of organs; the significant growth in the transplant industry coinciding with the mass imprisonment of Falun Gong practitioners; short ...