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1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| 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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Egypt.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. |
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Egypt. |
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
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Organ Transplantation -- ethics. |
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Bioethical Issues. |
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Islam. |
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Religion and Medicine. |
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Egypt. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hamdy, Sherine. Our Bodies Belong to God : Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520271753 |
| ISBN |
9780520951747 (electronic book) |
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0520951743 (electronic book) |
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0520271769 |
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9780520271760 |
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9780520271753 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613520722 |
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