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Our Bodies Belong to God : Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt / Sherine Hamdy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520951747
  • 0520951743
  • 0520271750
  • 9780520271753
  • 1280113103
  • 9781280113109
  • 9786613520722
  • 6613520721
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Our Bodies Belong to God : Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt.DDC classification:
  • 174.297954 174.297954 23
LOC classification:
  • RD120.7 .H355 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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