Nancy Scheper-Hughes, “Bodies for Sale – Whole or in Parts”!

In Commodifying Bodies, http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/commodifying-bodies/n1.xml!

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Report to Congress (2001)!

Available: http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa73452.000/hfa73452_0.HTM!

Report to Congress on transplant tourism (2001): “We in the United States cannot claim any high moral ground given the number of U.S. transplant centers, public and private, that court and cater to paying foreigners, thereby subverting the idea of donated organs as a national and community resource.”!

[citation information on previous slide; next slide from the same report]!

Zoe: bare life, biological life!

Bios: political life!

Scheper-Hughes, “Bodies for Sale”!

Donors seeking receivers [from Congressional report]!

“kidney belts” [also from Congressional report]!

Further reading!