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Unauthorized organ transplantations
Name(s):
Illegal organ harvesting
Nature
Organ harvesting is the organized collection of human organs without consent, sometimes illegally, for subsequent transplantation or other therapeutic use. Criminals, children, tourists and stillborn or aborted babies are notable victims.
Broader
Unauthorized practice
Narrower
Trade in human organs
Theft of internal organs
Recycling human placental tissue
Related
Unsustainable harvesting rates
Aggravates
Trafficking in children for medical exploitation
Aggravated by
Lack of human organs for transplantation
Strategy(ies)
Donating body to science
Developing artificial organs
Undertaking organ transplants
Providing organ bank
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems