06117nam 22012255 450 991077880760332120230508162317.01-280-11310-397866135207220-520-95174-310.1525/9780520951747(CKB)2550000000079289(EBL)844029(OCoLC)774272261(SSID)ssj0000592348(PQKBManifestationID)11369507(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000592348(PQKBWorkID)10735767(PQKB)10484965(DE-B1597)519169(DE-B1597)9780520951747(MiAaPQ)EBC844029(EXLCZ)99255000000007928920200424h20122012 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrOur Bodies Belong to God Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt /Sherine HamdyBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (371 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27175-0 Frontmatter --Contents --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 God --Epilogue: The Ongoing Struggle for Human Dignity --Notes --Glossary of Frequently Used Arabic Terms --References --IndexWhy 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.Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - EgyptTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Religious aspects - IslamTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- EgyptTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Religious aspects -- IslamTransplantation of organs, tissues, etcReligious aspectsIslamEgyptTransplantation of organs, tissues, etcEthicsTransplantationReligionHumanitiesSurgical Procedures, OperativeBioethical IssuesIslamOrgan TransplantationReligion and MedicineSurgery & AnesthesiologyHILCCHealth & Biological SciencesHILCCTransplantation of Organs & TissuesHILCCbioethics.book for pa students.books for healthcare professionals.books for medical students.egyptian culture.egyptian religion.ethics in healthcare.ethnography and medicine.health.healthcare ethics.healthcare in egypt.international healthcare.islamic medical practice.medical anthropology.medical ethics books.medicine and ethics.medicine and religion.medicine in egypt.medicine in middle east.organ transplantation and religion.plastic surgery.science and religion.transcultural healthcare.Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Egypt.Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Religious aspects - Islam.Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Egypt.Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Religious aspects -- Islam.Transplantation of organs, tissues, etcReligious aspectsIslamTransplantation of organs, tissues, etcEthicsTransplantationReligionHumanitiesSurgical Procedures, OperativeBioethical IssuesIslamOrgan TransplantationReligion and MedicineSurgery & AnesthesiologyHealth & Biological SciencesTransplantation of Organs & Tissues174.297954174.297954Hamdy Sherineauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1506347DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910778807603321Our Bodies Belong to God3736553UNINA