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Anthropology professor working on organs trafficking

by lorenz on May 11, 2004 in medical anthropology / ethnobothany

University of California Berkeley

Medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes is helping authorities in Brazil, Israel and South Africa investigate a shocking new "slave triangle" in which the poor are being taken to distant cities by criminal syndicates and coerced into selling their organs for illegal transplants >>continue

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