ANP 370 1st Edition Lecture 11 Outline of Last Lecture I Eggsploitation Video a Reproduction in the lab b Dirty Little secrets c Steps of Egg donation d Short term risks II Discussion about Exam 3 don t depend on study guides pay attention to lectures and readings Outline of Current Lecture III Organ Trafficking in Bangladesh a Exploitation of the poor IV Blood commercialization in the US Lecture Organ Trafficking in Bangladesh Discussion of Monir s case studies and ethical questions Interviews with 5 case studies of kidney sellers Difficult fieldwork illegal activity and highly stigmatized Believed by the sellers that they are selling God s gif Kidney buyers use coercion print deceitful ads in newspapers Promising things such as citizenship jobs The Debate Rewarded gifing or paid organ donation program or the organ market verses Against any form of payment for bodily organs it s a modern version of slavery Monir s arguments Exploitation of the poor These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Organ trade is a profound exploitation of the poor The rich are beneficiaries and the poor are mere supplier of body parts to prolong the lives of the affluent few Such a system disproportionately strikes against the vulnerable Violence against their bodies Organs are extracted through deception fraud manipulation coercion and misinformed consent These are all forms of biomedical violence Recipient doctor tells the poor that they have a sleeping kidney and once their awake kidney gets donated they receive medicine to wake up the sleeping kidney Suffering of kidney sellers Economic situation worsened most sellers don t receive the money they get promised by the buyers majority Health condition deteriorated Social status declined The objectification of human body Body and property rights The existential ground of the body the damaged self bodily integrity and holism Violation of human rights and human dignity The post human body as a machine Slippery slope and other negative outcomes How far can we go Can we cut off a leg from a poor person and assume that one leg is sufficient for him Can we create a human body shop Such a system could be both inefficient and degrading Blood commercialization in the US and US As Richard Titmuss 1970 documented that the American system is inefficient as it leads to Chronic shortages Wasted blood Higher costs and A greater risk of contaminated blood