This volume examines the issue of human organ trafficking from the perspectives of criminal justice, business, medicine, ethics, philosophy, and theology. It presents case studies of the trafficking of body parts occurring in the U.S. and Mexico, examines the increase in organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners, and describes widespread instances of trafficking in Europe. It discusses the economic ramifications of possible legislation of the sale of body parts and explores ethical issues surrounding the kidney shortage and incentives to promote donation. It also offers arguments for and against compensation for transplant organs from philosophical and religious perspectives.

A Criminal Justice Perspective. Trafficking in Body Parts. China Profit$ from Prisoners: Organ Procurement and the Ethical Issue of Consent. Trafficking in Human Organs in Europe: A Myth or an Actual Threat? A Business and Economic Perspective. A Free Market for Human Organs. Karnataka's Unabating Kidney Trade. To Solve a Deadly Shortage: Economic Incentives for Human Organ Donation. A Free Market for Kidneys: Options, Futures, Forward, and Spot. A Medical, Ethical, and Philosophical Perspective. Medical Tourism: Organ Trafficking and Kidney Transplantation. Body Values: The Case against Compensating for Transplant Organs. Autonomy, Constraining Options, and Organ Sales. Markets and the Needy: Organ Sales or Aid? Selling Bits and Pieces of Humans to Make Babies: The Gift of the Magi Revisited. A Theological Perspective. A Catholic Perspective on Organ Sales. Body Parts and the Marketplace: Insights from Thomistic Philosophy. The Commercialization of Human Body Parts: A Reappraisal from a Protestant Perspective. Index.