Zepeda 1
Andrea Zepeda
Professor Swedenburg
Middle East Cultures
Tuesday and Thursday 12:30
28 October 2014
The Ethics, Religion, and Culture in Organ Transplantation
“Our bodies belong to God,” is the statement and the title of Sherine Hamdy’s
novel, which becomes the basis to the debate in Egypt regarding the transplant of organs.
Hamdy talks about the reasons behind the hesitance between the religious, political,
cultural and ethical aspects of organ transplantation. The main belief for many Muslims is
that they believe that they were given that body to use here on earth but ultimately they
