Is Brain Drain Cannibalism?

The notion of a cannibal market seems most clearly relevant when discussing the circulation of human organs and materials of human origin. The commodification of parts and derivatives of the human body is the prerequisite for the existence of such a market, which today is increasingly globalized, and as a result, subject to global inequalities. Yet to apply the metaphor of cannibalism to the worldwide brain drain of skilled health-care personnel would seem rather far-fetched. After all, the “..