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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Hagai Boas, "The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?" (Routledge, 2022)
Description: This is the story of organ transplantation, told from the organ’s point of view.Organs for transplantations come from two sources: living or post-mortem organ donations. These sources set different routes of movement from one body to another.Postmortem organ donations are mainly sourced and allocated by state agencies, while living organ donations are the result of informal relations between donor and recipient. Each route traverses different social institutions, determines discrete interaction between donor and recipient, and is charged with moral meanings that can be competing and contrasting.The political economy of or...