by Nasir Malim, Aasim I. Padela | Aug 26, 2020
Abstract Best practice policies for the care and treatment of intersex patients, specifically in deciding their gender assignment, are a disputed topic. Analyzing Islamic resources regarding intersex individuals helps inform Islamic bioethical views on the most...
by Usman Raja, Sabena Y Jameel | Aug 26, 2020
Abstract Medicine and medical education have reduced reflection and its practice to a means of assessment and formalised it as an aspect of professionalism, which itself has become reduced and misunderstood in modern thinking. In doing so, this has led to a lack of...
by Mona Saleh M.D, FRCSC and Mohammed Ghaly, Ph.D. | Apr 29, 2020
Abstract The current COVID-19 pandemic has placed overwhelming demands on healthcare systems globally necessitating guidelines for limited resource allocation to be developed. This paper examines the ethics of resource allocation from an Islamic perspective and...
by Dr. Nadia Khan | Apr 29, 2020
Within the Islamic worldview, death is seen as a very natural part of the fragile human experience. It is a certainty that holds deep meaning and implications for how Muslims value and live their lives, and throws the relationship between Creator and His creation into...
by Usman Maravia | Apr 29, 2020
Abstract This article explains the rationale for why Muslim jurists decided to suspend the Friday prayers and funerary rites as well as the option for healthcare professionals to postpone their fasting in Ramadan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The explanation provides...
