Excavating the Organ Trade

An Empirical Study of Organ Trading Networks in Cairo, Egypt

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8400972
AutoresSeán Columb (0000-0003-0485-4516, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Páginasazw068
Data de publicação2016-08-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azw068
OpenAlexW2509375591
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas41

Legislative action in response to the organ trade has centred on the prohibition of organ sales and the enforcement of criminal sanctions targeting 'trafficking' offences. This paper argues that the existing law enforcement response is not only inadequate but harmful. The analysis is based on empirical data gathered in Cairo, Egypt, among members of the Sudanese population who have either sold or arranged for the sale of kidneys. The data suggest that prohibition has pushed the organ trade further underground increasing the role of organ brokers and reducing the bargaining position of organ sellers, leaving them exposed to greater levels of exploitation.

Action (physics) · Business · Economics · Enforcement · Environmental health · International trade · Law enforcement · Legislature · Organ transplantation · Political science · Population · Position (finance) · Sanctions · Solid organ · Finance · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Medicine · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Sex work and related issues · Transplantation