Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt
By Sherine Hamdy.
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 an...
ISBN(s)
0520271769, 9789812387028
