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Conversations with Kidney Vendors in Pakistan
Author(s) -
Moazam Farhat,
Zaman Riffat Moazam,
Jafarey Aamir M.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.0.0136
Subject(s) - poverty , ethnography , affect (linguistics) , sociology , situated , sociological theory , work (physics) , social psychology , development economics , socioeconomics , economic growth , economics , psychology , social science , anthropology , engineering , mechanical engineering , communication , artificial intelligence , computer science
In theory, a commercial market for kidneys could increase the scarce supply of transplantable organs and give impoverished people a new way to lift themselves out of poverty. In‐depth sociological work on those who opt to sell their kidneys reveals a different set of realities. Around the town of Sarghoda, Pakistan, the negative social and psychological ramifications of selling a kidney affect not only the vendors themselves, but also their families, communities, and even the country as a whole.