Bioethics and Organ Transplantation in a Muslim Society: A Study in Culture, Ethnography, and Religion (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. Cover......Page 1 CONTENTS......Page 8 acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 14 1. The Stage: Backdrop, Props, and Protagonists......Page 34 2. Webs of Relationships and Obligations......Page 86 3. Giving and Receiving Kidneys: Perspectives of PakistaniPatients and Families......Page 135 4. A Surgeon in the Field......Page 184 5. Conclusion: Ethics and Pakistan......Page 228 notes......Page 240 selected bibliography......Page 256 index......Page 268 An ethnographic study of live, related kidney donation in Pakistan, based on Farhat Moazam's participant-observer research conducted at a public hospital. It describes the renal transplant cases and the cultural, ethical, and family conflicts that accompany them, and an object lesson in comparative bioethics. "This is an ethnographic study of live, related kidney donation in Pakistan. It is based on participant-observer research conducted by Dr. Moazam at a public hospital in Karachi."--Jacket [A richly detailed and deeply emotional account of the conflict between modern medicine and traditional society in Pakistan] Farhat Moazam. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [243]-253) And Index.