Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt /
Sherine Hamdy.
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
1 online resource (371 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Our Bodies Belong to God; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Confidentiality and Photography; Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Preface; INTRODUCTION: BIOETHICS REBOUND; 1. EGYPT'S CRISES OF AUTHORITY; 2. DEFINING DEATH: WHEN THE EXPERTS DISAGREE; 3. FROM SECRET TO SCANDAL: CORNEAS, DEAD DONORS, AND EGYPT'S BLIND; 4. SHAYKH OF THE PEOPLE: GENEALOGY OF AN UTTERANCE; 5. TRANSPLANTING GOD'S PROPERTY: THE ETHICS OF SCALE; 6. ONLY ONE KIDNEY TO GIVE: ETHICS AND RISK; 7. PRINCIPLES WE CAN'T AFFORD? ETHICS AND PRAGMATISM IN KIDNEY SALES.
CONCLUSIONS: WHERE CYBORGS MEET GODEPILOGUE: THE ONGOING STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN DIGNITY; Notes; Glossary of Frequently Used Arabic Terms; References; Index.
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Why has Egypt, a pioneer of organ transplantation, been reluctant to pass a national organ transplant law for more than three decades? This book analyzes the national debate over organ transplantation in Egypt as it has unfolded during a time of major social and political transformation--including mounting dissent against a brutal regime, the privatization of health care, advances in science, the growing gap between rich and poor, and the Islamic revival. Sherine Hamdy recasts bioethics as a necessarily political project as she traces the moral positions of patients in need of new tissues and o.
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Our Bodies Belong to God : Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt.
9780520271753
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc-- Egypt.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.-- Religious aspects-- Islam.
Bioethical Issues.
Islam.
Organ Transplantation-- ethics.
Religion and Medicine.
Health & Biological Sciences.
MEDICAL-- Ethics.
MEDICAL-- General.
Surgery & Anesthesiology.
Transplantation of Organs & Tissues.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.-- Religious aspects-- Islam.