neocannibalism

is a term for black-market organ trafficking and the underlying notion of humans eyeing each other greedily as a source of spare body parts.

Refers to black-market organ trafficking in which either corpses are 'looted' of their organs or impoverished invidividuals sell their kidneys to the weathly through doctors and the so-called 'body mafia.' Scheper-Hughes describes neo-cannibalism as 'the notion that we can eye each other greedily as a source of spare body parts.' . . . 'the theft of body parts from corpses-- which occurs predominantly in impoverished areas around the globe.' (net)

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neocannibalism