{"id":567307,"date":"2010-05-17T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-4780008923608039624"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:25:49","slug":"organlegging-neuromancer-style-%e2%80%93-china%e2%80%99s-liver-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/567307","title":{"rendered":"Organlegging Neuromancer style \u2013 China\u2019s liver trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Organlegging was Larry Niven\u2019s 1970s term for trafficking in human organs<\/a>. Gibson\u2019s fiction, including the fabulous (1984!!<\/em>) Neuromancer<\/a>, featured Chinese organ shops. Cross organlegging with Neuromancer and fast forward to 2010.<\/p>\n

How do people not raised on science fiction get their head around the modern world? It\u2019s really a disability of sorts.<\/p>\n

Since my 2006 organ trade post<\/a> (see also<\/a>) the market has continued to mature \u2026<\/p>\n

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Blood & Treasure- the liver trade<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026 Type in Baidu<\/a> and search for \u201clooking for liver, kidney\u201d and so on words, tens of thousands of results show up, including QQ numbers*, cell phone numbers, some even operate like a company. They not only look for people willing to sell their livers and kidneys, at the same time they also advertise to provide livers and kidneys that match the patients. Reporter contacted number of organ trading brokers and found that they had a clear set of requirements, and the business also formed \u201cone shop stop\u201d service\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Liver segment and single kidney donation is usually survivable.<\/p>\n

Is anyone in the US paying attention? <\/p>\n

No, I didn\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

* tencent QQ<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\u2026 is the most popular free instant messaging computer program in Mainland China, and has over 856.2 million users<\/strong>. In April 2010, QQ.com ranked 10th overall in Alexa’s internet rankings. The program is maintained by Tencent Holdings Limited (HKEX: 0700), owned in part by Naspers\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019d never learn this stuff if I didn\u2019t have my Chinese-focused blogs to read. The mainstream media is hopelessly lost.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: After posting this, I revisited a link in my 2006 post to a 2004 NYT article. There I found mention of “Organs Watch” – an organization tracking the global organ trade. The web site, however is “under construction<\/a>“; the notice refers to an August 2009 update that never happened. Nancy Scheper-Hughe<\/a>s<\/a> led Organs Watch, but the last news of her is from 2008. Reading between the lines of the Wikipedia article, I wonder if she might have gone a bit off the rails (“Israel” and “tentacles” in the same sentence is a bit of a red light). She was still teaching at Berkeley in Fall 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Organlegging was Larry Niven\u2019s 1970s term for trafficking in human organs. Gibson\u2019s fiction, including the fabulous (1984!!) Neuromancer, featured Chinese organ shops. Cross organlegging with Neuromancer and fast forward to 2010. How do people not raised on science fiction get their head around the modern world? It\u2019s really a disability of sorts. Since my 2006 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}