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Public Culture

An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

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Kidney Broker, Manila, 2002

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Tony (not his real name) was among the first residents of Bagong Lupa, a huge shantytown built over a polluted harbor, to sell his kidney to a foreign transplant patient at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in downtown Manila.

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Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year in Fall, Winter, and Spring for the Institute for Public Knowledge by Duke University Press. The journal's full archives are available online at Dukejournals.org.

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