Islam and New Kinship: Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality)

by Morgan Clarke (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $157.63

  Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of religious authority in the region...