Medical science

The works that this thesis analyzes are William Grimes’s Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (originally published in 1825 and revised in 1855), Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), and Charles Chesnutt’s two novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1…

This dissertation examines recent bioethical debates around organ transplantation based on fieldwork (2001-2004) in the Egyptian cities of Cairo, Tanta, and Mansoura. Efforts to initiate a national organ transplant program have consistently failed in the Egyptian Parliament for …