Publisher | University of California Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780520271753 |
ISBN 10 | 0520271750 |
Author | Sherine Hamdy |
Language | English |
Book Description | "Based on extensive research in Egypt, this powerful, deeply disturbing ethnography causes readers to question commonly held assumptions about the organ transplant enterprise. Hamdy, acutely sensitive to the destructive forces of extreme poverty, arg |
About the Author | Sherine Hamdy is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. Read more |
Publication Date | 13 March 2012 |
Number of Pages | 342 pages |
Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt