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Currents: Poverty
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Human kidneys: The new cash crop.
New medical technologies have spawned a world trade in human organs that is largely resistant to regulation, says Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who offers an overview (below) and reports from Moldova and the Philippines (above).
WITH the demise of the Soviet Union, the agricultural economy of rural Moldova collapsed in the mid-1990s. Here, in the heart of central Europe, ec...See the full content of this document
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