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Author Schreiber, Jenny

Title Politics, Piety, and Biomedicine : the Malaysian Transplant Venture
Published Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (299 pages)
Series Kultur und soziale Praxis
Kultur und soziale Praxis.
Contents Cover; Table of Contents ; List of Figures, List of Tables, List of web-based Appendices ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; List of web-based Appendices ; Abbreviations ; Glossary ; Acknowledgements ; Preliminary Remarks ; Preface ; Abstract / Zusammenfassung ; 1. Introduction
1.1 Objective of the Study 1.2 Ethnicity, Culture, and Religion ; 1.3 Medical Pluralism ; 1.4 Bioavailability of Organs ; 1.5 Anthropological Problems ; 1.6 Overview of Healthcare Research concerning the Attitude of Malaysians towards Organ Donation ; 1.7 Fieldwork
1.7.1 Qualitative in-depth Interviews with Medical and Religious Experts 1.7.2 Quantitative Survey among the Rural Malay and Chinese Communities ; 1.8 Structure of the Present Work ; 2. Politics, Piety, and Biomedicine ; 2.1 Political Background and Context
2.2 The Transplant Venture and the Media 2.3 From Sporadic Transplant Activity to the National Transplantation Programme ; 2.4 Laws, Government Policies, and Medical Guidelines Pertaining to Transplantation, Organ Donation and Brain Death
2.5 Promoting Organ Donation: From Grass-Root Initiatives to Large Scale Government Campaigning 2.6 Making the National Transplantation Programme a 'Muslim-Friendly' Enterprise ; 2.7 Normative Islamic Obligations: Their Generation and Content
Summary The discourse on transplantation and brain death has become emblematic of conflicts between certain perspectives on adequate medical care, death and dying. Scientific and religious, modernising and traditional as well as academic and popular voices debate on how to approach these topics. This work captures the heterogeneous and often contradictory views on the Malaysian transplant venture and the treatment option of end stage organ failure from the Malay and Chinese population, physicians, state officials, and Muslim, Buddhist and Daoist clergy. It also addresses vital issues as to the use of and extent to which biomedicine and medical technology in contemporary Malaysia actually benefits its people
Notes 2.7.1 Generating Federal Fatwas under the National Fatwa Committee
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and glossary
Notes In English; abstract also in German
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Subject Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Malaysia -- Religious aspects
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Politics, Practical.
Organ Transplantation
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Ethnicity -- psychology
Religion and Medicine
Religious Philosophies
Politics
Tissue Transplantation
Transplantation
politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Politics, Practical
Medicine -- Religious aspects
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Religious aspects
SUBJECT Malaysia
Subject Malaysia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783839437025
3839437024