Organ transplantation in China
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organ-transplantation-in-china-161-5573890
title:
Organ transplantation in China
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Organ transplantation in China has taken place since the 1960s, and is one of the largest organ transplant programmes in the world, peaking at over 13,000 liver and kidney transplants a year in 2004. Involuntary organ harvesting is illegal under Chinese law. Growing concerns about possible ethical abuses arising from coerced consent and corruption led medical groups and human rights organizations, by the 1990s, to condemn the practice. These concerns resurfaced in 2001, when a Chinese asylum-see
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_China
date created:
2006-08-16T12:54:59Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T04:37:52Z
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