Islamic medical ethics and the straight path to God
Increasingly, Islamic medicine and medical ethics are a focus of international debate. As a prescriptive discipline, based on Shariʾa, Islamic medical ethics is challenged on two fronts. First, the science on which legal judgements are made can change. Second, the schools of jurisprudence may issue...
| Published in: | Islam and Christian-Muslim relations |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2005
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Year: 2005, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 213-225 |
| Further subjects: | B
ethical argumentation
B Law B Islam B Genetic technology B Ethische Argumentation B Abtreibung B Abortion B gene technology |
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| Summary: | Increasingly, Islamic medicine and medical ethics are a focus of international debate. As a prescriptive discipline, based on Shariʾa, Islamic medical ethics is challenged on two fronts. First, the science on which legal judgements are made can change. Second, the schools of jurisprudence may issue different, contradictory judgements. Western non-Muslim health professionals need to understand Shariʾa-regulated medical ethics because Muslims living in Western Europe are a significant and growing presence. Influenced by aspiration and expectation, however, there is no one Islamic sense of personal identity. In consequence, the straight path, or law of God, is far from straightforward. The application of Shariʾa to medicine can cause tension between traditionalists and modernists, pragmatism and theology. Three medical issues are explored: abortion, embryology research and organ transplantation. Although remaining faithful to what has guided ethical decision-making in the past, Islam needs to be ready to engage with new ethical questions of the future. |
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| ISSN: | 0959-6410 |
| Contains: | In: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596410500142957 |