Totoy Bato a feature on how illegal kidney selling becomes an unavoidable means of financial survival for an Impoverished Filipino Community

• Main Authors: Agdon, Ma. Regine Joyce C., Carpio, Micah Celine S., Chua, Angelica A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Feature films; Sale of organs, tissues, etc.; Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.; Communication
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/10814
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study focused on how the economically disadvantaged residents of Brgy. Kasiglahan in Montalban, Rizal resort to the selling of their kidneys for financial survival. Social constructionism applies to this research since the residents uphold the idea that kidney trade would lead them out from poverty. Despite their awareness that it can result to long-term health complications and that it does not guarantee social mobility, they still opt to believe that it would give them a financially stable life. Even if the donors before have proven that kidney sale has not really been an effective means to improve their living conditions, numerous residents would still engage in it. Their experience of poverty has simply made kidney donation a vicious cycle in their community.