Biomedicine as Global Assemblage: The Malay Muslim Account of Total Brain Failure
The rather rare condition of total brain failure, commonly referred to as “brain death”, has become emblematic of the possible conflicts between scientific and religious, modernising and traditional, and academic and popular views on death and dying. To capture those heterogeneous and often contradi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2015, Volume: 55, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 312-347 |
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bioethics
brain death
fatwa
global assemblage
Islam
Malay
Malaysia
Muslim clergy
total brain failure
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