Publication
Tissue and cell's trafficking: a byproduct of transplant activity's trash. The future is now. A Public Health problem
| dc.contributor.author | Alves, Maria Helena | |
| dc.contributor.author | Langford Santos, Helena | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-26T16:35:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-26T16:35:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Transplantation is one of the most beautiful achievements for humanity in the last century and became the last hope to many patients. As other beautiful achievements, it has been used by criminals. The future of transplantation will be focused on tissue and cells transplantation. Trafficking of human beings to organ removal and trafficking of human organs are an early stage of trafficking on tissues and cells comparable with slaves trafficking in the 17th and 18th century. As 400 years ago, the motive for the crime is development, economy and profit. Transplant surgery is the modern “cotton gin” to this new commerce. Poverty exploitation, unprotected people, are always the victims. Even so, there are some differences since then. The paying buyers are the patients themselves and the “cotton” transplanted is not so harmless. Unsafe tissues and cells inappropriately collected and allocated can be so dangerous to the recipient and his family, that the dreamed transplant/implant becomes a nightmare. Beyond the trafficking crime, there is a most dangerous associated crime that is the crime of spreading dangerous infectious diseases. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/3949 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Transplantation | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Human Organs | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Public Health Policy | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Tissue and cell's trafficking: a byproduct of transplant activity's trash. The future is now. A Public Health problem | pt_PT |
| dc.type | conference object | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Rome, Italy | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | 4th ELPAT Congress, Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Transplantation, 22-25 April 2016 | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | conferenceObject | pt_PT |