One Aging Geek

Saturday, May 22, 2004

Tracking the Sale of a Kidney on a Path of Poverty and Hope

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/international/americas/23BRAZ.html?ex=1400644800&en=af0abd1572aa41bd&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

RECIFE, Brazil -- When Alberty José da Silva heard he could make money, lots of money, by selling his kidney, it seemed to him the opportunity of a lifetime. For a desperately ill 48-year-old woman in Brooklyn whose doctors had told her to get a kidney any way she could, it was.

Not quite Larry Niven's "organleggers". But not all that far off, either