Bitter Harvest: China's Organ 'Donation' Nightmare

[Corncrake]

Fairly long article on China's terrible trade in organ 'donations' from prisoners on death row - or not.

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/bitter-harvest-china%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98organ-donation%E2%80%99-nightmare

[Snoweagle]

Excellent article - recommended reading.

. . . explained that he found the act of transplant followed by lethal injection to be “soul stirring.”
. . . a fellow policeman, who happened to overhear screams coming from one of the harvesting vans.
. . . a prisoner shot in the chest, not to kill, but to send the body into deep shock, minimizing the squirming and contractions that could make harvesting problematic.
. . . a respected Taiwanese surgeon confessed to me, with raw angst, that his aging Taiwanese patients were regular recipients of . . . organs . . .
. . . but only after the party authorized the use of extreme measures—torture, force-feeding, systematic rape, destruction of families, liberal application of psychoactive drugs, and a number of outright murders.

. . . of the Lancet. The article, titled “A Pilot Programme of Organ Donation after Cardiac Death in China,” reads as a maddeningly vague apologia for China’s unethical transplant environment . . .
="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2811%2961086-6/abstract"
. . . lesser fear is that China’s global medical ambitions will be tainted, particularly in the lucrative pharmaceutical and medical testing industry.
. . . greater fear . . . is that the party’s historic crime will be laid bare before the world, and worse, before the Chinese people, . . .

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/bitter-harvest-china%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98organ-donation%E2%80%99-nightmare
The Author: Ethan Gutmann is an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the author of Losing the New China. This article is partially adapted from the author’s chapter in State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China, edited by David Matas and Dr. Torsten Trey.
http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/losingnewchina/
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/