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To: Richnorth who wrote (84336)	4/10/2002 8:34:29 AM
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Will kidneys be turned into gold? 10 April 2002 13:24 GMT+1 Home > Independent Surgeons call for legalised trade in body parts Boom in illicit transplants from Third World forces medical community to confront an age-old taboo By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor 09 April 2002 In matters of life and death, the law counts for little. A man or woman confronting their own mortality will acknowledge few restraints on their behaviour. That is why the trade in human organs is booming. Doctors around the world report that wealthy individuals with kidney disease are travelling in increasing numbers to countries where they can buy kidneys on the black market, despite the international ban on trafficking in human organs. Patients from Britain, America and the Middle East are among those who have benefited from the growing trade, focused on countries where poverty is endemic including India, Iraq and eastern Europe. Now kidney specialists who have in the past condemned the trade are suggesting that payments to living donors, controlled in such a way as to avoid exploitation (see box), may be the only way to solve the global shortage of human organs. One of the greatest of all medical taboos – the sale of body parts – is being openly proposed for the first time (cont) independent.co.uk