One of the more obvious manifes­tations of treating the human body as a resource to be mined is the hospital waiting list, used in many countries. A man I interviewed recently for a study of Swedes who had been on the waiting list, but who decided to purchase kidneys abroad, described to me his trip to Pakistan for the transplant: “I’m not the kind of man who uses other people, but I had to.
将人体视为待发掘资源的一个明显表现是很多国家采用的医院候诊名单制度。在一项针对候诊瑞典人的研究中一位男子刚刚接受了我的采访，他最终决定到国外购买器官，并向我讲述了到巴基斯坦接受移植的经过：“我并不愿意利用别人，但我别无选择。我必须在死亡和生存两者之间进行抉择！”