Indian Ethics and Contemporary Bioethical Issues

2008 ◽  
pp. 11-17
Keyword(s):  
Bioethical Issues ◽  
Indian Ethics

Biomedical Scientists as Co-Muftis: Their Contribution to Contemporary Islamic Bioethics

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 286-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Ghaly
Keyword(s):  
Technical Information ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Islamic Bioethics ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Original Idea ◽  
Informative Role ◽  
Bioethical Issues ◽  
Normative Role

By the beginning of the 1980s, deliberations on Islam and biomedical ethics started to assume a systematised and collective form through combining contributions from Muslim religious scholars and (Muslim) biomedical scientists. The original idea was that biomedical scientists would inform and educate Muslim religious scholars about the scientific and biomedical aspects of specific bioethical issues. After being equipped with sufficient information about these technical aspects, religious scholars would embark upon their normative role by construing the religio-ethical Islamic standpoint. This proposed strict division between the tasks of biomedical scientists and those of religious scholars did not prove to be viable during the gatherings which hosted both groups. Instead of confining themselves to the informative role, biomedical scientists infringed upon the normative role which is typically assigned to Muslim religious scholars alone. Besides presenting technical information, they also presented their own perspectives on how Islamic scriptures should be employed in order to develop the Islamic religio-ethical standpoints. This article explains how biomedical scientists moved from being just “informants” for the religious scholars to becoming eventually “co-muftis”.


Public Health Policy and Bioethical Issues in AIDS

1990 ◽  
pp. 325-340
Author(s):  
David G. Ostrow ◽  
Michael Traugott ◽  
Jeff Stryker
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Bioethical Issues

scholarly journals Medical and Bioethical Issues in Laboratory Animal

10.5772/18082 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matilde Jimenez-Coello ◽  
Karla Y. ◽  
Antonio Ortega-Pacheco ◽  
Eugenia Guzman-Mari
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Animal ◽  
Bioethical Issues

scholarly journals On the myth called 'African Bioethics': further reflections on Segun Gbadegesin's account

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
Fayemi Ademola Kazeem ◽  
Akintunde Folake Adeogun
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Global Bioethics ◽  
Cultural Appropriateness ◽  
Bioethical Issues ◽  
African Perspective

This paper examines, and further reflects, on Segun Gbadegesin’s position on the question of African bioethics. In an attempt to situate bioethical discourse within the garb of cultural appropriateness, Gbadegesin gives an African perspective of bioethics by exploring the attitudes of the Yoruba people (an example of an African culture) towards bioethical issues. Through this, he calls for a transcultural bioethics, which will underscore the universality of bioethics without undermining the significance of cultural identities. This paper challenges as a “myth?, the assumptions and positions of Gbadegesin in his recent discourse on African bioethics. By raising and adducing reasons to fundamental questions (such as: How authentic is Gbadegesin’s reportage on the Yoruba attitude to bioethical issues? How plausible is the possibility of a universal/global bioethics that is anchored on the recognition of all cultures in bioethical discourse? Is there a distinctive African bioethics? If yes, what is the nature of such an inquiry? What are the bioethical principles employed in solving bioethical issues in African culture?), this paper defends the position that there is not yet an African bioethics.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bioethics.v3i3.12558 Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 2012; 3(3):4-11

scholarly journals On feminist engagements with bioethics

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Rada Drezgic
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Relational Autonomy ◽  
Background Values ◽  
Bioethical Issues ◽  
Social Units ◽  
Feminist Bioethics

The article explores two questions: what is feminist bioethics, and how different it is from standard bioethics. Development of feminist bioethics, it is argued, began as a response to standard bioethics, challenging its background values, and philosophical perspectives. The most important contribution of feminist bioethics has been its re-examination of the basic conceptual underpinnings of mainstream bioethics, including the concepts of ?universality?, ?autonomy?, and ?trust?. Particularly important for feminists has been the concept of autonomy. They challenge the old liberal notion of autonomy that treats individuals as separate social units and argue that autonomy is established through relations. Relational autonomy assumes that identities and values are developed through relationships with others and that the choices one makes are shaped by specific social and historical contexts. Neither relational autonomy, nor feminist bioethics, however, represents a single, unified perspective. There are, actually, as many feminist bioethics as there are feminisms-liberal, cultural, radical, postmodern etc. Their different ontological, epistemological and political underpinnings shape their respective approaches to bioethical issues at hand. Still what they all have in common is interest in social justice-feminists explore mainstream bioethics and reproductive technologies in order to establish whether they support or impede gender and overall social justice and equality. Feminist bioethics thus brings a significant improvement to standard bioethics.

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