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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Federica Sona, Marie-Claire Foblets, Shai Lavi, Hagai Boas Copyright 2027
246 Pages
by Routledge

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;... Read more

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 

Biography

Federica Sona is Associate Professor in the Law Department, the University of Turin, Italy, Associate Researcher at SOAS University of London, UK, and Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany.

Marie-Claire Foblets is Director of the Department of Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany and Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Shai Lavi is Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Hagai Boas leads the Science, Technology and Society cluster at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

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