ABSTRACT
In a recent article in the Journal of Human Rights, Scheper-Hughes has written:
how can a national government set a price on a healthy human being’s body part without compromising essential democratic and ethical principles that guarantee the equal value of human lives? Any national regulatory system would have to compete with global black markets which establish the value of human organs based on consumer orientated prejudices, such that in today’s kidney market an Indian kidney fetches as little as $1000, a Filipino kidney $1300, a Moldovan or Romanian kidney yields $2700, while a Turkish seller can command up to $10,000 and an urban Peruvian can receive as much as $30,000.
