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Our bodies belong to God: organ transplants, Islam, and the struggle for human dignity in Egypt

2012 The Regents of the University of California ;ISBN: 9780520271753 ;ISBN: 9780520271760 ;ISBN: 0520271769 ;ISBN: 0520271750 ;EISBN: 9780520951747 ;EISBN: 0520951743 ;OCLC: 774272261 ;LCCallNum: RD120.7

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  • Title:
    Our bodies belong to God: organ transplants, Islam, and the struggle for human dignity in Egypt
  • Author: Hamdy, Sherine
  • Subjects: Egypt ; Health Sciences ; Human rights ; Islam ; MEDICAL ; Medical ethics ; Organs ; Religious aspects ; Religious influences ; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc ; Transplants
  • Description: 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, and Islamic scholars. Her richly narrated study delves into topics including current definitions of brain death, the authority of Islamic fatwas, reports about the mismanagement of toxic waste predisposing the poor to organ failure, the Egyptian black market in organs, and more. Incorporating insights from a range of disciplines, Our Bodies Belong to God sheds new light on contemporary Islamic thought, while challenging the presumed divide between religion and science, and between ethics and politics.
  • Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 370
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780520271753
    ISBN: 9780520271760
    ISBN: 0520271769
    ISBN: 0520271750
    EISBN: 9780520951747
    EISBN: 0520951743
    OCLC: 774272261
    LCCallNum: RD120.7
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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