Debates and Implications for Human Organ Trafficking

• Date: 01 January 2014
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12157
• Author: Kai Chen
• Published date: 01 January 2014

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Kai Chen is a postdoctoral research

fellow in the Center for Non-Traditional

Security and Peaceful Development Studies,

College of Public Administration, Zhejiang

University, China. From 2009 to 2011, he

was a postdoctoral fellow in the School

of International Relations and Public

Affairs, Fudan University, China. His current

research focuses on international security

and geostrategic issues in East Asia, espe-

cially in Southeast Asia and China.

E-mail: chenkai@zju.edu.cn

Questions have been raised by concerned observ-

ers: what are the tensions between human organ

traf‌f‌i cking and limited governance? What is the

feasibility of commercialization of human organs?

What are the policy implications for the future?

Answers to these and related questions are urgently

needed. Fortunately, a recent book,  e International

Tra f‌f‌i cking of Human Organs, addresses these critical

questions.  e most distinguished among (the few)

recent works on traf‌f‌i cking of human organs, this

edited volume explores the tensions between human

Leonard Territo and Rande Matteson, eds.,  e Interna-

tional Traf‌f‌i cking of Human Organs (Boca Raton,

FL: CRC Press, 2012). 253 pp. $139.95 (cloth),

ISBN: 9781439867891.

In recent years, it has become increasingly dif‌f‌i cult

to ignore human organ traf‌f‌i cking, a practice

carried out not only in developing countries but

also in the developed world.  e past decade has

witnessed increasing traf‌f‌i cking of human organs

around the world, with limited government response.

Debates and Implications for Human Organ Traf‌f‌i cking

Sonia M. Ospina and Rogan Kersh, Editors

Kai Chen

Zhejiang University, China