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Bioethics and organ transplantation in a Muslim society : a study in culture, ethnography, and religion / Farhat Moazam.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bioethics and the humanitiesPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 264 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780253112200
  • 0253112206
  • 1282072994
  • 9781282072992
  • 9786612072994
  • 6612072997
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bioethics and organ transplantation in a Muslim society.DDC classification:
  • 174.2/97461 22
LOC classification:
  • RD575 .M62 2006eb
NLM classification:
  • 2006 L-119
  • WB 60
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)198238

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index.

Print version record.

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.

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.

English.