Our Bodies Belong to God Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt

Name: Our Bodies Belong to God Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt
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ISBN: 9780520271760

ISBN-10: 0520271769

ISBN-13: 9780520271760

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sherine Hamdy

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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 organs, doctors uncertain about whether transplantation is a "good" medical or religious practice,…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Sherine Hamdyis Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.



List of Illustrations


Note on Confidentiality and Photography


Note on Transliteration


Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction: Bioethics Rebound



Egypt's Crises of Authority



Defining Death: When the Experts Disagree



From Secret to Scandal: Corneas, Dead Donors, and Egypt's Blind



Shaykh of the People: Genealogy of an Utterance



Transplanting God's Property: The Ethics of Scale



Only One Kidney to Give: Ethics and Risk



Principles we Can't Afford? Ethics and Pragmatism in Kidney Sales


Conclusions: Where Cyborgs Meet God


Epilogue: The Ongoing Struggle for Human Dignity


Notes


Glossary of Frequently Used Arabic Terms


References


Index