PDF-(BOOK)-Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human

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 transformationincluding 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. . To explore advancing. human dignity. through the concepts and tools of organizational development. Session Goal. Central Question. How does a systematic inquiry, focused on the value of human dignity, lead to significant organizational change?. Major ethical issues. As with many other bioethical issues raised in this book, the existence of those issues has resulted because of the development of new medical technologies. . In some cases, one of the ethical questions that might be raised is whether the technology should be used at all. . A Time for Change. The following presentation is a series of reflections from the following articles from the BBC online. -“Nasser's Mixed Legacy” by Roger Hardy. -“1956: Egypt Seizes the Suez Canal” – BBC online. A Philo-politico-educational perspective. by David . Balosa. David . Balosa. :. Adjunct Professor of French, Portuguese, . Spanish, & Swahili at Delaware State . University. Department of English and Foreign Languages. Aisling Cleary . Traditional Heart Transplants. First heart transplant = performed in 1967. Today 3,800 performed worldwide per year . Traditionally transported in cooler on ice. Picture of first heart transplant in 1967. Shane Pennington. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jov0bWNx0M. “Organ and tissue transplants offer patients a new chance at healthy, productive, normal lives and return them to their families, friends and communities. You have the power to change someone's world by being a donor. It's about living. It's about Life.”. Rights . Debate in Islamic World. Ebrahim Azadegan. Sharif University of . Technolog. y. 13 OCT 2016. Utrecht. Introduction. Main Problem: while . we can find some valuable textual support for even the modern conception of human dignity in Islam but different established views toward the . th. May, . 2017). Masalakulangwa. 2017 . etm. 400. Important example topics. The Golden Rule. The 7 Deadly sins that destroy humanity. Euthanasia (mercy killing, good death, doctor-assisted suicide). Organ/Tissue Donation. What is Islam?. Islam . The monotheistic religion where . Allah. is the One and only God, . . worshipped by followers of Islam called . Muslims. , articulated by . The Life Stages Approach. Nancy S. Jecker. , . PHD. Professor. University . of . Washington School . of . Medicine. Seattle, WA USA. nsjecker@uw.edu. International Workshop on Ageing:. Intergenerational Justice and Elderly Care . The basis for all that the Church believes about the moral dimensions of economic life is its vision of the transcendent worth -- the sacredness -- of human beings. The dignity of the human person, realized in community with others, is the criterion against which all aspects of economic life must be measured. . Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study, anthropologist Lesley Sharp explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning, especially in light of medical taboos surrounding donor anonymity. As Sharp argues, new forms of embodied intimacy arise in response, and the riveting insights gleaned from her interviews, observations, and descriptions of donor memorials and other transplant events expose how patients and donor families make sense of the transfer of body parts from the dead to the living. For instance, all must grapple with complex yet contradictory clinical assertions of death as easily detectable and absolute nevertheless, transplants are regularly celebrated as forms of rebirth, and donors as living on in others\' bodies. New forms of sociality arise, too: recipients and donors\' relatives may defy sanctions against communication, and through personal encounters strangers are transformed into kin. Sharp also considers current experimental research efforts to develop alternative sources for human parts, with prototypes ranging from genetically altered animals to sophisticated mechanical devices. These future trajectories generate intriguing responses among both scientists and transplant recipients as they consider how such alternatives might reshape established--yet unusual--forms of embodied intimacy. Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study, anthropologist Lesley Sharp explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning, especially in light of medical taboos surrounding donor anonymity. As Sharp argues, new forms of embodied intimacy arise in response, and the riveting insights gleaned from her interviews, observations, and descriptions of donor memorials and other transplant events expose how patients and donor families make sense of the transfer of body parts from the dead to the living. For instance, all must grapple with complex yet contradictory clinical assertions of death as easily detectable and absolute nevertheless, transplants are regularly celebrated as forms of rebirth, and donors as living on in others\' bodies. New forms of sociality arise, too: recipients and donors\' relatives may defy sanctions against communication, and through personal encounters strangers are transformed into kin. Sharp also considers current experimental research efforts to develop alternative sources for human parts, with prototypes ranging from genetically altered animals to sophisticated mechanical devices. These future trajectories generate intriguing responses among both scientists and transplant recipients as they consider how such alternatives might reshape established—yet unusual—forms of embodied intimacy. The business world analogy. Good strategies matter – plans, ways of doing things. Culture matters more – shared values, beliefs, behaviors . Companies with positive cultures outperformed companies with negative cultures.