| Description |
1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Egypt
|
|
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
|
|
Bioethics.
|
|
Islam.
|
|
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
|
|
Bioethical Issues
|
|
Islam
|
|
Organ Transplantation -- ethics
|
|
Religion and Medicine
|
|
Bioethics
|
|
Islam.
|
|
MEDICAL -- Ethics.
|
|
MEDICAL -- General.
|
|
Medicine -- Religious aspects
|
|
Islam
|
|
Bioethics
|
|
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Religious aspects -- Islam
|
|
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
|
|
Surgery & Anesthesiology.
|
|
Health & Biological Sciences.
|
|
Transplantation of Organs & Tissues.
|
| SUBJECT |
Egypt |
| Subject |
Egypt
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2011033137 |
| ISBN |
9780520951747 |
|
0520951743 |
|
0520271750 |
|
9780520271753 |
|
1280113103 |
|
9781280113109 |
|
9786613520722 |
|
6613520721 |
|
