Is Transplantation Tourism a Form of Cannibal Market?

The word “cannibalism” was already used in reference to transplantation when the so-called Pittsburg Protocol set out to remove organs from non-heart-beating patients. Renée Fox, a sociologist who began studying transplantation in the mid-1990s, considered the protocol so aggressive—bodies brought to the operating room for organ removal just a few minutes after the heart stopped beating—that she chose the term of “cannibalism” to describe it. It was a strong claim, indeed, since cannibalism i..