Illegal kidney trade booms as new organ is 'sold every hour'

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5. an excellent book on this subject

this is an eye opening book about the way various countries are dealing with the transplant industry - legal and illegal. In the US there is a move afoot to make legal the selling of organs - the free-market crowd. Their justifications are absurd, such as people will be healthier in the hopes that they will be chosen for organ donation.

Foreign countries who have missing prisoners are suspected of executions for the purpose of organ harvesting. This occurred after the country in question switched to "for profit" medical care.

Ethics in Organ Transplantation: Perspectives and Challenges, Edited by Nirmala Rao Khadpekar, The Icfai University Press, 52, Nagarjuna Hills, Punjagutta, Hyderabad, India-500 082, www.books.iupindia.org, Softcover, c.2008, $18, 254 pp.