Sherine Hamdy is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.

"Recommended." Choice "Hamdy offers a dense, cogent, and rewarding read of the struggles faced by Egyptians determined to make digni?ed decisions about transplantation." American Anthropologist "A meticulously developed thesis... [Hamdy's] study deserves to be widely read by students of theology, culture, and ethics." -- Abdulaziz Sachedina World Medical & Health Policy Journal "An ethnography that is valuable, humane and committed - to Hamdy's informants and subject matter, to her audiences in the West as well as readers in Egypt and the Muslim world." -- Livia Wick Contemporary Islam

• List of Illustrations Note on Confidentiality and Photography Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Bioethics Rebound 1. Egypt's Crises of Authority 2. Defining Death: When the Experts Disagree 3. From Secret to Scandal: Corneas, Dead Donors, and Egypt's Blind 4. Shaykh of the People: Genealogy of an Utterance 5. Transplanting God's Property: The Ethics of Scale 6. Only One Kidney to Give: Ethics and Risk 7. Principles We Can't Afford? Ethics and Pragmatism in Kidney Sales Conclusions: Where Cyborgs Meet God Epilogue: The Ongoing Struggle for Human Dignity Notes Glossary of Frequently Used Arabic Terms References Index

Sherine Hamdy is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.

"Recommended." Choice "Hamdy offers a dense, cogent, and rewarding read of the struggles faced by Egyptians determined to make digni?ed decisions about transplantation." American Anthropologist "A meticulously developed thesis... [Hamdy's] study deserves to be widely read by students of theology, culture, and ethics." -- Abdulaziz Sachedina World Medical & Health Policy Journal "An ethnography that is valuable, humane and committed - to Hamdy's informants and subject matter, to her audiences in the West as well as readers in Egypt and the Muslim world." -- Livia Wick Contemporary Islam

• List of Illustrations Note on Confidentiality and Photography Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Bioethics Rebound 1. Egypt's Crises of Authority 2. Defining Death: When the Experts Disagree 3. From Secret to Scandal: Corneas, Dead Donors, and Egypt's Blind 4. Shaykh of the People: Genealogy of an Utterance 5. Transplanting God's Property: The Ethics of Scale 6. Only One Kidney to Give: Ethics and Risk 7. Principles We Can't Afford? Ethics and Pragmatism in Kidney Sales Conclusions: Where Cyborgs Meet God Epilogue: The Ongoing Struggle for Human Dignity Notes Glossary of Frequently Used Arabic Terms References Index

Sherine Hamdy is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.

"Recommended." Choice "Hamdy offers a dense, cogent, and rewarding read of the struggles faced by Egyptians determined to make digni?ed decisions about transplantation." American Anthropologist "A meticulously developed thesis... [Hamdy's] study deserves to be widely read by students of theology, culture, and ethics." -- Abdulaziz Sachedina World Medical & Health Policy Journal "An ethnography that is valuable, humane and committed - to Hamdy's informants and subject matter, to her audiences in the West as well as readers in Egypt and the Muslim world." -- Livia Wick Contemporary Islam

• List of Illustrations Note on Confidentiality and Photography Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Bioethics Rebound 1. Egypt's Crises of Authority 2. Defining Death: When the Experts Disagree 3. From Secret to Scandal: Corneas, Dead Donors, and Egypt's Blind 4. Shaykh of the People: Genealogy of an Utterance 5. Transplanting God's Property: The Ethics of Scale 6. Only One Kidney to Give: Ethics and Risk 7. Principles We Can't Afford? Ethics and Pragmatism in Kidney Sales Conclusions: Where Cyborgs Meet God Epilogue: The Ongoing Struggle for Human Dignity Notes Glossary of Frequently Used Arabic Terms References Index