What in the World

Body Parts for Sale (7x4)

Fecha de emisión: Dic 23, 2013

Sixty-one year-old Israeli citizen Izhak Rossenbaum was the first person to be convicted of human organ trafficking in the United States. In the company of Berkeley University Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes we visit the Hasidic community in Brooklyn, New York where an organ trafficking network operated and in which Rossenbaum was a critical player. The kidney is the most trafficked of all human organs and the World Health Organisation estimates that 10% of all kidney transplantations are illegal. In an attempt to track this illegal trade we travel from LA, to Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Cork, and to Ashkelon, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in Israel.