Newsweek Report: Organ Trafficking is No Myth.(Brief article)

Transplant News | February 1, 2009 | Copyright

The Jan. 19 issue of Newsweek magazine detailed an investigation into organ trafficking by Berkeley anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who spent more than a decade tracking the illegal sale of human organs across the globe. Posing as a medical doctor in some places and a would-be kidney buyer in others, she has linked gangsters, clergymen and surgeons in a trail that led from South Africa, Brazil and other developing nations all the way back to some of this country's best medical facilities, the magazine reports.

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