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1049123
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bc441
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English
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| Main Entry
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Hamdy, Sherine,1975-
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| Title & Author
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Our Bodies Belong to God : : Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt /\ Sherine Hamdy.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, 2012.
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1 online resource (371 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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9780520951747
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: 0520951743
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0520271769
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9780520271760
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9780520271753
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: 0520271750
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: 9780520271753
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: 1280113103
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: 9781280113109
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: 9786613520722
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: 6613520721
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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 o.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc-- Egypt.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.-- Religious aspects-- Islam.
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Bioethical Issues.
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Islam.
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Organ Transplantation-- ethics.
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Religion and Medicine.
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MEDICAL-- Ethics.
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MEDICAL-- General.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.-- Religious aspects-- Islam.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
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Surgery Anesthesiology.
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Health Biological Sciences.
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Transplantation of Organs Tissues.
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Egypt.
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Egypt.
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| Dewey Classification
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174.297954174.297954
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| LC Classification
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RD120.7.H355 2012
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