Biomedical Practices, Religion, and the Law

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.

• 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; 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; 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; 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; 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.