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Berghahn Books Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies Sunni and Shia Perspectives 2012 Edition by Marcia C. Inhorn, Soraya Tremayne
How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled with the complex bioethical, legal, and social issues that are raised in the process of attempting to conceive life in the face of infertility? This path-breaking volume explores the influence of Islamic attitudes on Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) and reveals the variations in both the Islamic jurisprudence and the cultural responses to ARTs. Table of contents :- AcknowledgmentsGlossary of Arabic, Farsi and Turkish TermsIntroduction: Islam and Assisted Reproductive TechnologiesSoraya Tremayne and Marcia C. InhornPart I: Islamic Legal Thought and ARTs: Marriage, Morality, and Clinical ConundrumsIntroductionFrank GriffelChapter 1. Constructing Kinship in Sunni Islamic Legal TextsThomas EichChapter 2. Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Assisted Reproduction: Establishing Limits to Avoid Social DisordersSandra HouotChapter 3. Controversies in Islamic Evaluation of Assisted Reproductive TechnologiesFarouk MahmoudPart II. From Sperm Donation to Stem Cells: The Iranian ART RevolutionIntroductionNarges EramiChapter 4. More than Fatwas: Ethical Decision Making in Iranian Fertility ClinicsRobert TappanChapter 5. The "Down Side" of Gamete Donation: Challenging "Happy Family" Rhetoric in IranSoraya TremayneChapter 6. Gestational Surrogacy in Iran: Uterine Kinship in Shia Thought and PracticeShirin Garmaroudi Chapter 7. Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Iran: The Significance of the Islamic ContextMansooreh SanieiPart III. Islamic Biopolitics and the "Modern" Nation-state: Comparative Case Studies of ARTIntroductionSean BrothertonChapter 8. Third-Party Reproductive Assistance around the Mediterranean: Comparing Sunni Egypt, Catholic Italy, and Multisectarian LebanonMarcia C. Inhorn, Pasquale Patrizio and Gamal I. SerourChapter 9. Islamic Bioethics and Religious Politics in Lebanon: On Hizbullah and ARTsMorgan ClarkeChapter 10. Assisted Reproduction in Secular Turkey:Regulation, Rhetoric, and the Role of ReligionZeynep Gurtin-BroadbentNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex