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Book SynopsisIslamic 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 11 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.Contributors include: Tariq Ramadan, Abdallah Daar, Ali Albar, Mohsin Ebrahim, Baharouddin Azizan Alastair Campbel, Bagher Larijani, Carol Taylor, Gamal Serour, James Rusthoven, Ilhan Ilkilic, Ingrid Mattson, Hassan Chamsi-Pasha, Jonathan Crane, Hakan Ertin, Mehunisha Suleman.
Table of ContentsIslamic Bioethics: Infrastructure and Capacity Building (A Bagheri); Islamic Ethics: Sources, Methodology and Application (T Ramadan); Principles of Islamic Bioethics (E Moosa); Challenges in Inter-Religious Dialogue in Bioethics (O Bakar); What Islamic Bioethics Can Offer to the Global Bioethics (A Daar et al.); Challenges in Islamic Bioethics (K Aali et al.); Defining the Pedagogical Parameters of Islamic Bioethics (A Sachedina); Doctor-Patient Relationship in Islamic Context (M Al Bar & H Chamsi-Pasha); Islamic Perspective on Brain Death and Organ Transplantation (M Ebrahim); Environmental Ethics in Islam (A Baharuddin); The Stem Cell Debate in Islamic Bioethics (I Ilkilic); Animal Rights in Islam (B Larijani et al.); Gender, Sexuality and Transgender in Islamic Bioethics (I Mattson);
