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They become what anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes calls "the violence of everyday life," or what writer Rob Nixon characterizes as "slow violence."
Joseph Nevins: Flying & Activism Joseph Nevins 2010
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They become what anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes calls "the violence of everyday life," or what writer Rob Nixon characterizes as "slow violence."
Joseph Nevins: Flying & Activism Joseph Nevins 2010
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They become what anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes calls "the violence of everyday life," or what writer Rob Nixon characterizes as "slow violence."
Joseph Nevins: Flying & Activism Joseph Nevins 2010
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They both agreed that the Irish responses spoke eloquently to a profound sense of social malaise-whether derived from sexual inhibitions, repression and castration anxieties (De Vos 'view) or from a sense of living in a dying' peasant 'world (Scheper-Hughes' view).
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Scheper-Hughes a former student and colleague noted that she "long suspected that there was something missing in Marx's view of social inequality, and after reading George's brilliant article" Purity and Pollution as Related to Social Self-identity and Caste ", in conjunction with George Orwell's provocative essay," The Lower Classes Smell "she knew that the answer lay in these unconscious and early-learned and embodied representations of self and other."
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"Other countries have mobilized the justice system around the traffic, and the U.S. has in my estimation turned a blind eye," saidNancy Scheper-Hughes, an anthropologist from University of California, Berkeley who has documented the international organ trafficking business for more than a decade.
How Did Organ Trafficking Scheme Go Unnoticed? ProPublica 2009
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Scheper-Hughes acknowledges that in gathering these anecdotes she has frequently bumped up against the ethical boundaries of her own profession.
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Scheper-Hughes had no idea if those surgeons were aware that some of their patients had bought organs illegally.
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TheDaily Newsin New Yorkreported that Scheper-Hughes had informed the FBI about Rosenbaum's business seven years before he was finally arrested.
How Did Organ Trafficking Scheme Go Unnoticed? ProPublica 2009
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Scheper-Hughes said investigations by her and by various news investigations (such asthis one fromNewsweek) indicate the sale of live organs isn't as widespread in the U.S. as it is in some other countries, but it does exist here.
How Did Organ Trafficking Scheme Go Unnoticed? ProPublica 2009
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