Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Islamic bioethics' has, over the last decade or so, emerged as an important object of academic attention.1 The globalisation of biomedicine has entailed a globalisation of its attendant ethical dilemmas: the fertilisation of embryos in vitro, the cessation of life support and the transplantation of human organs, among a host of other issues, have been keenly debated in Muslim contexts just as they have elsewhere.Muslim voices have made their own distinctive contributions to these topics of universal concern, contributions which have in their turn become the subject of academic commentary and analysis.A burgeoning number of conferences (including that which led to this special edition of Die Welt des Islams), 2 edited volumes, 3 journal articles, 4 and monographs 5 have outlined and explored what can now be seen as a field in its own right.6 1 For a sketch of the literature before 2000, of which Vardit Rispler-Chaim's Islamic Medical Ethics in the Twentieth Century (Leiden: Brill, 1993) was perhaps the pioneering instance, see Thomas Eich and Jonathan Brockopp, 'Introduction: Medical Ethics and Muslim Perspectives', in Jonathan Brockopp and Thomas Eich (eds), Muslim Medical Ethics: From Theory to Practice (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008), 5-7. 2 That conference was The Social Politics of Islamic Bioethics, held in January 2014 at the University of Hamburg.Thanks are due to the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Körber Stiftung and Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung for their financial support.
Source: Die Welt des Islams
Authors: Morgan Clarke, Thomas Eich, Jenny Schreiber
Institutions: University of Oxford, Universität Hamburg
Language: German
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2219610447