The Organ Transplant Debate in Egypt: a Social Anthropological Analysis

In this paper, I take the heated debate about the ethics of organ transplantation in Egypt, to ask why Egypt is the only Muslim country in the world that has, for the past three decades, been unable to pass legislation for a national organ transplant program. Why is it that patients and even physici...

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Main Author: Sherine Hamdy
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: L’Harmattan 2010-06-01
Series:Droit et Cultures
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/2184