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This chapter deals with the sellers and the doctors performing the transplantations. One of the Israeli trafficking cases was connected to the Philippines. Israeli brokers collaborated with Filipino doctors and sent Israeli kidney patients to Manila where the patients/buyers received organs from the black-market. It turned out that in the Philippine Quezon province a kind of family-and neighborhood-based activities had developed where organ sale was one of several informal sources of income. There are strong links between the historical exploitation and colonization that characterizes the Philippines and today’s organ trafficking.
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Lundin, S. (2015). The Doctors in the Philippines. In: Organs for Sale: An Ethnographic Examination of the International Organ Trade. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137539854_4
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