In 1999, the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford held a workshop on the social dynamics of human reproduction. This volume contains 12 papers from scholars in Bri
How and to what extent have Islamic legal scholars and Middle Eastern lawmakers, as well as Middle Eastern Muslim physicians and patients, grappled with the complex bioethical, legal, and social issue
After the September 2009 "Islam and the Biotechnologies of Human Life" conference at Yale University, a few scholars remained for two more days to discuss their papers, eventually transforming them in
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