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Politics, Piety, and Biomedicine : The Malaysian Transplant Venture / Jenny Schreiber.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Kultur und soziale PraxisPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839437025
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1783 23
LOC classification:
  • RD120.7 .S347 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures, List of Tables, List of web-based Appendices -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Preliminary Remarks -- Preface -- Abstract / Zusammenfassung -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Politics, Piety, and Biomedicine -- 3. Malaysian Lifeworlds, Medical Pluralism, and the Transplant of Organs -- 4. Conclusion -- Epilogue -- References -- Brief Biography -- Web-based Appendices
Summary: The discourse on transplantation and brain death has become emblematic of conflicts between certain perspectives on adequate medical care, death and dying. Scientific and religious, modernising and traditional as well as academic and popular voices debate on how to approach these topics. This work captures the heterogeneous and often contradictory views on the Malaysian transplant venture and the treatment option of end stage organ failure from the Malay and Chinese population, physicians, state officials, and Muslim, Buddhist and Daoist clergy. It also addresses vital issues as to the use of and extent to which biomedicine and medical technology in contemporary Malaysia actually benefits its people.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures, List of Tables, List of web-based Appendices -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Preliminary Remarks -- Preface -- Abstract / Zusammenfassung -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Politics, Piety, and Biomedicine -- 3. Malaysian Lifeworlds, Medical Pluralism, and the Transplant of Organs -- 4. Conclusion -- Epilogue -- References -- Brief Biography -- Web-based Appendices

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The discourse on transplantation and brain death has become emblematic of conflicts between certain perspectives on adequate medical care, death and dying. Scientific and religious, modernising and traditional as well as academic and popular voices debate on how to approach these topics. This work captures the heterogeneous and often contradictory views on the Malaysian transplant venture and the treatment option of end stage organ failure from the Malay and Chinese population, physicians, state officials, and Muslim, Buddhist and Daoist clergy. It also addresses vital issues as to the use of and extent to which biomedicine and medical technology in contemporary Malaysia actually benefits its people.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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