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The chapter begins with the story of a man with a severe kidney disease who has travelled abroad to buy an organ. This is the background to discuss the consequences of the scarcity of organs. I discuss what other studies have been done and point to the benefits that ethnography has as a tool to investigate and combat organ trade.
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Lundin, S. (2015). Introduction: The Buyers in Sweden. In: Organs for Sale: An Ethnographic Examination of the International Organ Trade. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137539854_1
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