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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Medicine and Shariah fills an important and widely felt gap among Muslims. There have been numerous recent works on Islamic bioethics, but none as far as I am aware that specifically focus on the actual interaction between physicians and jurists. Aasim Padela is one of the foremost medical experts who has brought to the fore practical as well as institutional challenges that face Muslim physicians and patients.” —Ovamir Anjum, author of Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought
"The book is well written, striking an academic and balanced tone, which cannot be said of much that passes for Islamic bioethics today. I have no doubt that Aasim Padela will be remembered as a pioneer of our field." —Journal of Islamic Ethics
Table of ContentsPreface
An Introduction to Islamic Bioethics: Its Producers and Consumers
1. The Relationship between Medicine and Religion: Insights from the Fatwa Literature
2. The Islamic Juridical Principle of Dire Necessity (al-ḍarūra) and its Application to the Field of Biomedical Interventions
3. A Jurisprudential (Uṣūlī) Framework for Cooperation between Muslim Jurists and Physicians and Its Application to the Determination of Death
4. Considering Being and Knowing in an Age of Techno-Science
5. Exploring the Role of Mental Status and Expert Testimony in the Islamic Judicial Process
6. Muslim Perspectives on the American Healthcare System: The Discursive Framing of “Islamic” Bioethical Discourse
7. Muslim Doctors and Islamic Bioethics: Insights from a National Survey of American Muslim Physicians
8. Jurists, Physicians, and Others in Dialogue: A Multidisciplinary Vision for Islamic Bioethical Deliberation
