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Biomedical Practices, Religion, and the Law: Perspectives from the Middle East and Europe

Author: Federica Sona; Marie-Claire blets; FoShai Lavi; Hagai Boas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032801964
Published In: June 2026
Format: Hardback
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This book deepens our understanding of the social, legal, and anthropological issues that arise from the global proliferation of advanced biomedical technologies and how they enable people to use their bodies to express individual and collective identities. The volume approaches these issues through the lens of three contentious and ethically fraught biomedical techniques: gender surgery; medically assisted reproduction; and organ donation and transplantation. It combines anthropological understandings of the body as a site for claiming and safeguarding identities with perspectives from legal and medical experts to address the bioethical concerns associated with these technologies and to challenge assumptions regarding the universality of normative principles such as personal autonomy, consent, and justice.

The two regions that are the focus of this volume – the Middle East and Europe – allow the authors to explore cross-cultural comparisons and what they can tell us about how the symbolic dimension of the body, as a locus of identity, impacts medical practices. This is becoming especially relevant now, as contact among widely diverse cultures and communities is becoming ever more frequent and intense due to increasing migration, rampant urbanization, and internal displacement.

The book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and policymakers working in the areas of Legal Anthropology, Comparative Law, Law and Religion, Medical Anthropology, Medical Law and Ethics, and Sociology of Medicine.

Foreword: Toward a Transversal Bioethics: Some Notes on Principles, Practice, and the Future

Sarah Franklin

Biomedical Technologies at the Crossroads of Law, Religion, and Culture in Europe and the Middle East

Hagai Boas, Marie-Claire Foblets, Shai Lavi, and Federica Sona

Part I: Gender Surgery

1. Is Medicalization Secular? Regulating Circumcision in Germany, Turkiye, and Israel

Shai Lavi

2. Female Genital Mutilation versus Other Forms of Female Genital Practices in Malta and the UK: Exploring Shifts in Legal and Biomedical Perceptions

Jeanise Dalli

Part II: Medically Assisted Reproduction and Procreation

3. Global, Ethical, Cultural, and Religious Perspectives on Human Reproduction

Gamal I. Serour

4. Balancing the Rights of Unborn Children and Intended Parents: Sensitized Reproductive Biotechnologies and Islamic Medical Ethics

Federica Sona

Part III: Organ Donation and Transplantation

5. The Paradoxical Role of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Organ Donation in Israel

Hagai Boas

6. Consent to Organ Transplantation: Factoring in Religious, Ethical, and Cultural Diversity

Farrah Raza

7. Children in Transplantation – Who Is to Decide What?

Jenny Prüfe

Part IV: Courts and Biomedical Technologies

8. Recognizing Birthing Trans Fathers: A Legal Puzzle at the Intersection of Cultural and Structural Limits

Alice Margaria and Stefano Osella

9. Cultural Pluralism, Ethical Beliefs, and Biomedicine in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Vladimiro Zagrebelsky

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