title: This is my kidney, I should be able to do with it what I want: towards a legal framework for organ transplants in South Africa.
abstract: In 2010 illegal kidney transplants performed in South African hospitals were exposed. Living donors (actually sellers) from Brazil and Romania were flown into South Africa where a kidney was harvested from each and transplanted into Israeli patients. The media reports that followed indicated an outcry against the sale of human kidneys. But by analysing the whole transplantation process from the point of view of each person involved in the transplantation, namely the recipient, the donor, the doctor and the black market in the background the feeling is created that a process of payment for a kidney seems fairer than the current way of procuring organs either legally or illegally.
authors: Department of Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of South Africa, P O Box 392, UNISA, 0003. slabbm@unisa.ac.za
authors: Magda
authors: M
authors: Slabbert
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010067:Ownership / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013019:South Africa; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence