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Research and Publications

On Social Justice, Human Rights, and Organ Transplantation

Project Publications

Papers by Lawrence Cohen

Papers by Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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1990 Theft of Life. Society Trans-action

1996 Theft of Life: the Globalization of Organ Stealing Rumors. Anthropology Today 12(3), June: 3-11.

1998 Organ Trade: The New Cannibalism. The New Internationalist April : 14-17.

1998 Truth and Rumor on the Organ Trail. Natural History Magazine. October: 48-57.

1998 Bodies of Apartheid: Witchcraft, Rumor and Racism Confound South Africa's Organ Transplant Program. Worldview. October: 47- 53.

1999 "Organer-Far Fattigue Kroppe til Rige Kroppe". In KONTAKT: INTERNATIONALT Magasin (Denmark), No. 3 June 1999: 16-21.

2000 (Feb.) "The Global Traffic in Organs", Current Anthropology .

2000 (in press) "Bodies of Apartheid" - revised and expanded (above) in Anthropology for the World. Chicago University Press.