MercuryNews. I'm not sure executed prisoners can feed this level of flow. This has the potential to be something very, very ugly (and may be the kind of excess that causes massive disorder). In the past few years, several Chinese hospitals have done a soaring business in liver, heart and kidney transplants. They charge barely half as much as in the West, advertise through intermediaries abroad and pull in a steady stream of patients who are unable to find donors in their home countries.
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April 14, 2006
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Could be worse. If it were N. Korea, the organs would be coming from kidnapped S. Koreans and Japanese. Thank goodness they lack those 733t biotech skillz.
Posted by: Don McArthur | April 14, 2006 at 11:41 AM
This was more or less completely anticipated in science fiction by Larry Niven and others. There is one story called the "JigSaw Man" that is prophetic: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=337
Posted by: Rangachari Anand | April 14, 2006 at 12:58 PM
But note last week's announcement of cloned bladders. This may be a short-term trend.
Posted by: Larry | April 15, 2006 at 09:50 PM