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Our Bodies Belong to God : Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt /
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 m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780520951747 0520951743 0520271750 9780520271753 1280113103 9781280113109 9786613520722 6613520721 |