What a customed usage is this? M.E. Shapiro = Shapiro ME?

Context:
To the Editor:
The statement by G.M. Danovitch, M.E. Shapiro and J.
Lavee that ‘The use of executed prisoners as a source of
organ transplants in China must stop’ (1) cannot be dis-
puted. However, the strategies they suggest to achieve
this goal sound like a policeman approach that is unlikely
to appeal to Chinese colleagues and politicians amenable
to change. Another disturbing point is that the authors for-
get that Western democracies too, including the United
States,usedprisonersas‘donors’onlyafewdecadesago,
thus limiting their moral authority (2–4).

References
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2011; 11: 426–428.
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chez l’homme. Mem Acad Chir 1951; 77: 755.
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tive de greffe renale.′ Bull Soc Med Hop Paris 1951; 67: 99.
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Proc 1986; 18: 406–407.