Tag: Bioethics
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From Principles to Patients: Darul Qasim College’s Approach to Islamic Bioethics
What is the ‘Muslim’ response to June 24th, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to develop their own standards for abortion laws? How can shifāʾ — the all-encompassing cure mentioned in the Quran — inform the modern drug development pipeline? Where can Muslim physicians draw on their desire for ihsān (excellence)…
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Shaykh Amin Kholwadia on Maturidi Kalam and Bioethics
When a Muslim physician or scientist is going to work and engaging with his duties in life, he’s energetic, motivated, and he’s contributing to the beneficence of the world, then he will be much clearer in his intention and he will be much more sincere. We have a plethora of doctors in the US, but…
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Clonación humana: Nuevos horizontes de la biotecnología
El ritmo al que crece la tecnología, una especie de situación de carrera de la Reina Roja en la que los demás corremos para quedarnos en el sitio, nos obliga a pensar críticamente en el futuro de la biotecnología en lugar de observar pasivamente.
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Human Cloning: New Horizons in Biotechnology
The pace at which technology is growing, a sort of Red Queen’s race situation where the rest of us are running to simply stay in place, behooves us to critically think about the future of biotechnology instead of passively observing.
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Shaykh Amin Kholwadia on Theology and Ontology in Medical Ethics
I’m going to try and explain the terminologies so it becomes easier for us to explain what we hope to do with bioethics or Islamic bioethics. Theology as the owner: the study of God and what God wants, God’s will, and what God wants us to believe in. That is the Islamic outlook. Ontology is…
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Ethics and Reproductive Technology
A Book Review of Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Medicine: A Comparative Study of Western Secular and Islamic Bioethics by Dr. Sharmin Islam. What is Islamic bioethics, and how does it differ in its approach to modern reproductive technology?
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Scientific Naturalism and the Abortion Debate
Incommensurability, the idea that there is no rational method to weigh claims between two conceptual frameworks, is a core feature of morality today and the source for moral confusion.
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Gene Editing: The Problem of Progress
Human gene editing poses ethical and moral dilemmas we are unequipped to answer.
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Why Scientism Shouldn’t Inform Medical Ethics
The ongoing debate regarding the case of Alfie Evans has brought medical ethics once again under the spotlight, with particular scrutiny on the relationship between medical ethics and scientism.