organlegging n.
the illegal trading of human organs for transplant; cf. organlegger n.
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1969
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Larry Niven
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It involved an organlegging gang, apparently run by a single man, yet big enough to cover half the North American west coast.
Organleggers in Galaxy Jan. 118/1 -
1969
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Larry Niven
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The crime of organlegging was the result of thousands of years of medical progress, of millions of lives selflessly dedicated to the ideals of healing the sick.
Organleggers in Galaxy Jan. 140/2 -
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Alan Dean Foster
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If there were not bounty hunters of company security personnel or independent investigators, what did they want with him? Thoughts of organlegging returned.
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2011
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Charles Stross
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Thereβs a Person of Repeated Interest in Pilton whoβs just turned up at the Royal Infirmary with forty sutures in his lower back, a nasty case of MRSA, and a missing kidney. Question from CID, Do we have an organlegging problem or is this just punishment surgery?
Rule 34 i. 42
Research requirements
any evidence 1969
Earliest cite
Larry Niven
Research History
Suggested by David Starner, who says he has a cite from the 1990 GURPS cyberpunk manual.Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2011 cite from Charles Stross.
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