Ethical Issues in Global Health Research
Websites
- The Marketing of the New Reproductive Technologies: Medicine, the Media, and the Idea of Progress
Janice G. Raymond
- Race and the New Reproduction
"Because this technology
inflicts so much distress on women's bodies for the benefit of men,
feminist author Janice Raymond calls it a form of 'medical violence'
against women."
- Donor Resources from the Gill Foundation
- The End of the Body: The Global Traffic in Organs for Transplant Surgery
by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, UC Berkeley Anthropology Department
"Nowhere, perhaps, are these processes more transparent than in the rapid dissemination in the past decade of organ transplantation technologies and practices which under the ideal conditions of an "open", neo-liberal , global Market Economy has allowed for an unprecedented movement of , among other "things", mortally sick bodies moving in one direction and detached "healthy" organs (transported by commercial airlines in ordinary plastic beer coolers stored in the overhead luggage compartment of the economy section ) in another direction, creating a bizarre "kula ring" of international trade. This essay critically explores -- with particular reference to recent organ transplantation "developments" in Brazil, South Africa, India, the United States, and China -- the new forms of bio-economics and bio-sociality (Rabinow 1996) that are now emerging in the wake of the internationalization of this immensely powerful, if crude, medical technology. "