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Lissa

A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution

By: Sherine Hamdy,Coleman Nye

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Lissa

A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution

By: Sherine Hamdy,Coleman Nye

As young girls in Cairo, Anna and Layla strike up an unlikely friendship that crosses class, cultural, and religious divides. Years later, Anna learns that she may carry the hereditary cancer gene responsible for her mother's death. Meanwhile, Layla's family is faced with a difficult decision about kidney transplantation. Their friendship is put to the test when these medical crises reveal stark differences in their perspectives...until revolutionary unrest in Egypt changes their lives forever. The first book in a new series, Lissa brings anthropological research to life in comic form, combining scholarly insights and accessible, visually-rich storytelling to foster greater understanding of global politics, inequalities, and solidarity.

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Our Bodies Belong to God

Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt

By: Sherine Hamdy

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Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt

By: Sherine Hamdy

This book analyzes the national debate over organ transplantation in Egypt as it has unfolded during a time of major social and political transformation-including mounting dissent against a brutal regime, the privatization of health care, advances in science, the growing gap between rich and poor, and the Islamic revival.

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Univ of California Press

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Lissa

A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution

By: Sherine Hamdy,Coleman Nye

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A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution

By: Sherine Hamdy,Coleman Nye

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Our Bodies Belong to God

Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt

By: Sherine Hamdy

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Our Bodies Belong to God

Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt

By: Sherine Hamdy

Why has Egypt, a pioneer of organ transplantation, been reluctant to pass a national organ transplant law for more than three decades? This book analyzes the national debate over organ transplantation in Egypt as it has unfolded during a time of major social and political transformation—including mounting dissent against a brutal regime, the privatization of health care, advances in science, the growing gap between rich and poor, and the Islamic revival. Sherine Hamdy recasts bioethics as a necessarily political project as she traces the moral positions of patients in need of new tissues and organs, doctors uncertain about whether transplantation is a "good" medical or religious practice, and Islamic scholars. Her richly narrated study delves into topics including current definitions of brain death, the authority of Islamic fatwas, reports about the mismanagement of toxic waste predisposing the poor to organ failure, the Egyptian black market in organs, and more. Incorporating insights from a range of disciplines, Our Bodies Belong to God sheds new light on contemporary Islamic thought, while challenging the presumed divide between religion and science, and between ethics and politics.

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