Structure and Advisory Board

Our goal is to make sure that organ transplantation and organ harvesting are conducted in a fair, equitable, non-coercive, and culturally sensitive way. There are abuses -- even some human rights violations -- that need to acknowledged, addressed and changed so that human dignity is preserved for the greatest number and the rights of patients/recipients and of donors and their families all are recognized in the transactions.

PROJECT DIRECTORS:

Professors Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Lawrence Cohen (Berkeley Project, University of California)

Berkeley Project Co-ordinator:

Kathleen Erwin, Ph.D., Medical Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

FIELD RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (1999-2000):

Hernan Reyes, International Committee of the Red Cross, (Latin America)

Mariana Ferreira, Ph.D. Medical anthropologist (Brazil)

Malkeet Gupta, medical student, UCSF (India)

Robert Levy, Ph.D. Histotian, UCLA (Romania, Israel)