TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moazam,Farhat
TI  - Bioethics and organ transplantation in a Muslim society: a study in culture, ethnography, and religion 
T2  - Bioethics and the humanities
SN  - 9780253112200
AV  - RD575 .M62 2006eb
U1  - 174.2/97461 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Kidneys
KW  - Transplantation
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Bioethics
KW  - Bioethical Issues
KW  - Family
KW  - psychology
KW  - Islam
KW  - Kidney Transplantation
KW  - Living Donors
KW  - Reins
KW  - Greffe
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - Éthique médicale
KW  - P*akist*an
KW  - Pākistān
KW  - Bioéthique
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index; Cover; CONTENTS; acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Stage: Backdrop, Props, and Protagonists; 2. Webs of Relationships and Obligations; 3. Giving and Receiving Kidneys: Perspectives of PakistaniPatients and Families; 4. A Surgeon in the Field; 5. Conclusion: Ethics and Pakistan; notes; selected bibliography; index
N2  - This is an ethnographic study of live, related kidney donation in Pakistan, based on Farhat Moazam's participant-observer research conducted at a public hospital. Her narrative is both a ''thick'' description of renal transplant cases and the cultural, ethical, and family conflicts that accompany them, and an object lesson in comparative bioethics
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