Islamic Bioethics: Current Issues And Challenges

by Alireza Bagheri, Khalid Abdulla Al-ali

Overview

Islamic Bioethics presents a wide variety of perspectives and debates on how Islamic societies deal with the ethical dilemmas raised by biomedicine and new technologies. The book is a 'constructive dialogue' between contributors selected from a multidisciplinary group of Muslim and non-Muslim scholars from different Islamic countries. The 13 chapters illuminate the diversity and complexity of the issues discussed in Islamic bioethics and pave the way to a better understanding of Islamic bioethics and dialogue in the global bioethics community. The chapters take both theoretical and practical approaches to the topic, and each covers an emerging issue in Islamic bioethics.This book will be useful for academics and professional institutions in both Islamic and non-Islamic countries, and will be instrumental in providing researchers, scholars, students, policymakers and medical professionals with access to the latest issues and debates related to Islamic bioethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783267491
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd
Publication date:	10/24/2017
Series:	Intercultural Dialogue In Bioethics , #2
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Contributors vii

Preface Alireza Bagheri Khalid Alali xi

Chapter 1 Islamic Ethics: Sources, Methodology and Application Tariq Ramadan 1

Chapter 2 Islamic Bioethics: Infrastructure and Capacity Building Alireza Bagheri 23

Chapter 3 What Islamic Bioethics Offers to Global Bioethics Alireza Bagheri Alastair Campbell Carol Taylor James Rusthoven Jonathan Crane Abdallah Daar 33

Chapter 4 Gender and Sexuality in Islamic Bioethics Ingrid Mattson 57

Chapter 5 The Physician-Patient Relationship in an Islamic Context Mohammad Ali Albar Hassan Chamsi-Pasha 85

Chapter 6 Islamic Perspective on Brain Death and Organ Transplantation Abul Fadl Mohsin Ebrahim 107

Chapter 7 An Ethical Account of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in the Islamic World Hakan Ertin Ilhan Ilkilic 133

Chapter 8 Environmental Ethics in Islam Azizan Baharuddin Mohd Noor Musa 161

Chapter 9 Animal Rights in Islam: The Use of Animals for Medical Research Bagher Larijani Nazafarin Ghasemzadeh Mansoureh Madani 183

Chapter 10 Biomedical Research Ethics in the Islamic Context: Reflections on and Challenges for Islamic Bioethics Mehrunisha Suleman 197

Chapter 11 Challenges in Islamic Bioethics Khalid Alali Gamal Serour Alireza Bagheri 229

Index 243

About the Editors 251