Muslim medical ethics
Subtitle: from theory to practice
By: edited by Jonathan E. Brockopp and Thomas Eich.
Contributors: Brockopp, Jonathan E., 1962-; Eich, Thomas.
Series: Studies in comparative religion; Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781570037535
Subjects: Medical ethics -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Islamic ethics; Ethics, Medical; Bioethical Issues; Islam; Religion and Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ethics of the physician in the Galeno-Islamic tradition / Samar Farage; title: Enduring the plague: ethical behavior in the fatwas of a fourteenth-century mufti and theologian / Justin Stearns; title: Decision-making processes among contemporary ʻulamā: Islamic embryology and the discussion of frozen embryos / Thomas Eich; title: Rethinking Islamic legal ethics in Egypt's organ transplant debate / Sherine Hamdy; title: Competing needs and pragmatic decision-making: Islam and permanent contraception in northern Tanzania / Susi Krehbiel Keefe; title: Male infertility in Mali: kinship and impacts on biomedical practice in Bamako / Viola Herbst; title: Islam, organ transplants, and organ trafficking in the Muslim world: paving a path for solutions / Debra Budiani and Othman Shibly; title: Ethical and legal implications in assisted reproductive technology: perspective analysis of the Gulf Cooperative Council states / Hamza Eskandarani; title: The permissibility of organ donation, end-of-life care, and autopsy in Shiite Islam: a case study / Iqbal H. Jaffer and Shabbir M. H. Alibhai; title: A comparative analysis of Islamic and Jewish end-of-life ethics: a case-based approach / Shabbir M.H. Alibhai and Michael Gordon; title: Medication and God at interplay: end-of-life decision-making in practicing male Moroccan migrants living in Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium / Stef Van den Branden and Bert Broeckaert; title: Reporting on "Islamic bioethics" in the medical literature: where are the experts? / Hasan Shanawani and Mohammad Hassan Khalil; title: Islamic medical ethics: what and how to teach / Hassan Bella; title: Defining the pedagogical parameters of Islamic bioethics / Abdulaziz Sachedina; title: Conclusion / Marcia C. Inhorn.