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...

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Главный автор: Kyriakides-Yeldham, Anthony (Автор)
Формат: Electronic/Print Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Routledge 2005
В: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Год: 2005, Том: 16, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 213-225
Другие ключевые слова:B ethical argumentation
B Law
B Генная технология (мотив)
B Право (мотив)
B Ethische Argumentation
B Abtreibung
B Ислам (мотив)
B Abortion
B gene technology
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Итог: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.
ISSN:0959-6410
Второстепенные работы:In: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/09596410500142957