W S 450- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)
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There are organ brokers, who connect the donors with people with those who need it. There is a growing network of organ trafficking people . The people who are trafficking their organs: poor, low-income, sick, unprivileged. The people who are buying the organs: rich, western, needy. Doctor vulture is the best organ transplant doctor in turkey: doctor sonmez, medicus clinic in kosovo. Zaki shapira is another renowned organ trafficking doctor: from israel, worked alongside sonmez. Although many stated that they weren"t forced or coerced into selling their kidney, they felt as though in their situation that there was no other option. Selling in organ in the philippines provides more money than about 1-2 years of work. No country is immune to the trade of organs . Idp camps = internally displaced persons : no power, little food and water, 1. 5 million people. Children have lost their parents: making them orphans, abducted to be child soldiers and sex and labor slaves.