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Bioethics and organ transplantation in a Muslim society : a study in culture, ethnography, and religion / Farhat Moazam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moazam, Farhat.
- Series:
- Bioethics and the humanities.
- Bioethics and the humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kidneys--Transplantation--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Kidneys.
- Kidneys--Transplantation--Psychological aspects.
- Medical ethics--Pakistan.
- Medical ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Dr. Farhat Moazam has written a wonderful book, based on her extraordinary first-hand study.... [S]he is an exceptionally gifted and evocative writer. Her book not only has the attributes of a superb piece of intellectual work, but it has literary artistic merit."" -- Renee C. Fox, Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences at the University of PennsylvaniaThis is an ethnographic study of live, related kidney donation in Pakistan, based on Farhat Moazam's participant-observer research
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07299-4
- 9786612072994
- 0-253-11220-6
- OCLC:
- 476072271
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