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This chapter examines the global traffic in "fresh" organs, arguing that it represents a new form of commodity fetishism in late modernity. Scheper-Hughes analyzes the ethical and political implications of this trade, highlighting the vulnerability of impoverished populations who become "living donors" in a system driven by demand from wealthy patients in the global North. She explores the complex dynamics of supply and demand, the role of medical tourism, and the ways in which organ transplantation becomes entangled with issues of biopolitics, globalization, and social inequality. The chapter challenges conventional understandings of human rights and bodily integrity, raising critical questions about the commodification of life itself in the context of neoliberal capitalism.

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