Islam and New Kinship : Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon /

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Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religi...

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Autor principal: Clarke, Morgan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2009]
Colección:Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 16
Temas:
Family planning > Lebanon.
Human reproduction (Islamic law) > Lebanon.
Human reproduction (Islamic law).
Reproductive rights > Lebanon.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Contexts
  • Prologue: Ahmed's story
  • 1. 'New kinship', new reproductive technologies and ideas of kinship in the Middle East
  • 2. Islamic law and the religion of Lebanon: The example of adoption
  • Part II. Conversations
  • 3. Test-tube fiqh: Islamic legal reactions to the new reproductive technologies
  • 4. More test-tube fiqh
  • 5. Medical perspectives
  • Part III. Confrontations
  • 6. Brave new worlds?
  • Glossary of Arabic terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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