In this Book
- Bioethics and Organ Transplantation in a Muslim Society: A Study in Culture, Ethnography, and Religion
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: Bioethics and the Humanities
"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 Pennsylvania
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.
Table of Contents
- acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- 2. Webs of Relationships and Obligations
- pp. 73-121
- 4. A Surgeon in the Field
- pp. 171-214
- 5. Conclusion: Ethics and Pakistan
- pp. 215-226
- selected bibliography
- pp. 243-253