Guard Thy Heart by Siwar Al Assad

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Last year, I wrote a review for Guard Thy Heart by Siwar Al Assad. However, the review focused on relationships. Thus, I wanted to write another review focusing on healthcare issues.

Guard Thy Heart becomes especially gripping when Assad describes Paul's horror at the practice of extracting organs from living donors, who sold them under appalling conditions:

"Immigrants lacking documents or money, poverty-stricken Indian farmers, and other vulnerable people were surgically divested of a kidney or cornea, and then left without medical care and frequently unable to work. For their trouble, they received a meager sum, allowing the traffickers, doctors, and lawyers to recoup a profit ten times what they paid for that precious resource. The height of the monstrous practice was the kidnapping of human beings to be killed and cut into pieces to fill special requests."  - Assad, Guard Thy Heart

Assad then concisely illustrates the politics behind such crimes by exposing the institutions involved. The book really heats up when Paul debates Dr. Kumar about the illegal system of procuring organ parts such as hearts.

Guard Thy Heart is a complex multi-layered political thriller. Like a classic novel, it depicts the idiosyncrasies of old and new wealth. It's also a romance that examines the way a particular type of woman can captivate a man for a lifetime. Highly recommended.

This book would be ideal for university political science classes, law school health law, or international law courses.

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