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General approaches to ethical reasoning in Islamic biomedical ethics discourse
Islamic and non-religious ethics discourses have similarities and differences at the levels of meta-, normative, and applied ethics (e.g. biomedical ethics). Mainstream biomedical ethics (MBME) uses the language of contemporary, non-religious, Western ethics. Significant effort has been dedicated to...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642444/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31346388 |
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author | Moosapour, Hamideh Mashayekhi, Jannat Zahedi, Farzaneh Soltani, Akbar Larijani, Bagher |
author_facet | Moosapour, Hamideh Mashayekhi, Jannat Zahedi, Farzaneh Soltani, Akbar Larijani, Bagher |
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description | Islamic and non-religious ethics discourses have similarities and differences at the levels of meta-, normative, and applied ethics (e.g. biomedical ethics). Mainstream biomedical ethics (MBME) uses the language of contemporary, non-religious, Western ethics. Significant effort has been dedicated to comparing Islamic biomedical ethics (IBME) and MBME in terms of meta- and normative ethical positions, and final decisions on practical ethical issues have been reached. However, less attention has been given to comparing the general approaches of the two aforementioned discourses to ethical reasoning. Furthermore, IBME uses different languages to approach ethical reasoning, but identification and conceptualization of these approaches are among the important gaps in the literature. The aim of this study was to conceptualize general approaches to ethical reasoning in IBME. Through review and content analysis of the existing literature and the comparison between the languages employed by IBME and MBME, an inductive distinction have been made. The languages used in conceptualized approaches include the followings: (i) a language in common with the one employed by MBME; (ii) MBME language adjusted to the basic, common beliefs of Muslims; (iii) a language based on fatwas; and (iv) a language based on IBME principles. In the authors’ opinion, major challenges of the above-mentioned four approaches include, respectively: identifying the lack of religious sensitivity or Islamic considerations regarding an issue; acknowledging specific beliefs as the basic, common beliefs of Muslims; diverse fatwas and relations between juridical soundness and ethical soundness; and agreement on the same principles and rules as well as who should apply them. |
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spelling | pubmed-66424442019-07-25 General approaches to ethical reasoning in Islamic biomedical ethics discourse Moosapour, Hamideh Mashayekhi, Jannat Zahedi, Farzaneh Soltani, Akbar Larijani, Bagher J Med Ethics Hist Med Original Article Islamic and non-religious ethics discourses have similarities and differences at the levels of meta-, normative, and applied ethics (e.g. biomedical ethics). Mainstream biomedical ethics (MBME) uses the language of contemporary, non-religious, Western ethics. Significant effort has been dedicated to comparing Islamic biomedical ethics (IBME) and MBME in terms of meta- and normative ethical positions, and final decisions on practical ethical issues have been reached. However, less attention has been given to comparing the general approaches of the two aforementioned discourses to ethical reasoning. Furthermore, IBME uses different languages to approach ethical reasoning, but identification and conceptualization of these approaches are among the important gaps in the literature. The aim of this study was to conceptualize general approaches to ethical reasoning in IBME. Through review and content analysis of the existing literature and the comparison between the languages employed by IBME and MBME, an inductive distinction have been made. The languages used in conceptualized approaches include the followings: (i) a language in common with the one employed by MBME; (ii) MBME language adjusted to the basic, common beliefs of Muslims; (iii) a language based on fatwas; and (iv) a language based on IBME principles. In the authors’ opinion, major challenges of the above-mentioned four approaches include, respectively: identifying the lack of religious sensitivity or Islamic considerations regarding an issue; acknowledging specific beliefs as the basic, common beliefs of Muslims; diverse fatwas and relations between juridical soundness and ethical soundness; and agreement on the same principles and rules as well as who should apply them. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6642444/ /pubmed/31346388 Text en © 2018 Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Moosapour, Hamideh Mashayekhi, Jannat Zahedi, Farzaneh Soltani, Akbar Larijani, Bagher General approaches to ethical reasoning in Islamic biomedical ethics discourse |
title | General approaches to ethical reasoning in Islamic biomedical ethics discourse |
title_full | General approaches to ethical reasoning in Islamic biomedical ethics discourse |
title_fullStr | General approaches to ethical reasoning in Islamic biomedical ethics discourse |
title_full_unstemmed | General approaches to ethical reasoning in Islamic biomedical ethics discourse |
title_short | General approaches to ethical reasoning in Islamic biomedical ethics discourse |
title_sort | general approaches to ethical reasoning in islamic biomedical ethics discourse |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6642444/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31346388 |
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