http://www.thirteen.org/forum/institutions/new-york-academy-of-sciences-institutions/trafficking-the-traffickers-undercover-ethnography-in-the-organs-trafficking-underworld/147/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:06:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.thirteen.org/forum/institutions/new-york-academy-of-sciences-institutions/trafficking-the-traffickers-undercover-ethnography-in-the-organs-trafficking-underworld/147/#comment-7787 Nancy Scheper-Hughes on the NJ corruption bust and illegal organ trafficking | Somatosphere Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:25:27 +0000 http://www.thirteen.org/forum/trafficking-the-traffickers-undercover-ethnography-in-the-organs-trafficking-underworld#comment-7787 [...] One of the most shocking aspects of the sprawling corruption bust that brought down several New Jersey mayors yesterday, was the arrest of Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn for attempting to arrange a donation of a kidney for $160,000. Moreover, it was apparently UC Berkeley’s Nancy Scheper-Hughes who, in 2002, first tipped off the FBI to her knowledge of Rosenbaum’s role as the principal US broker in an international kidney trafficking ring. The donors/victims included Moldovan villagers who were apparently promised manual labor jobs in the US and then coerced into “donating” their kidneys to recipients who posed as relatives. Scheper-Hughes came upon this over the course of a decade-long research project on the illegal organs trade, which is the topic of a forthcoming book entitled A World Cut in Two: Global Justice and the Traffic in Organs. In addition to a handful of academic publications, Scheper-Hughes discussed the project at length during a recent lecture at the New York Academy of Sciences, available for viewing here. [...] [...] One of the most shocking aspects of the sprawling corruption bust that brought down several New Jersey mayors yesterday, was the arrest of Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn for attempting to arrange a donation of a kidney for $160,000. Moreover, it was apparently UC Berkeley’s Nancy Scheper-Hughes who, in 2002, first tipped off the FBI to her knowledge of Rosenbaum’s role as the principal US broker in an international kidney trafficking ring. The donors/victims included Moldovan villagers who were apparently promised manual labor jobs in the US and then coerced into “donating” their kidneys to recipients who posed as relatives. Scheper-Hughes came upon this over the course of a decade-long research project on the illegal organs trade, which is the topic of a forthcoming book entitled A World Cut in Two: Global Justice and the Traffic in Organs. In addition to a handful of academic publications, Scheper-Hughes discussed the project at length during a recent lecture at the New York Academy of Sciences, available for viewing here. [...]

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