Introduction to Symposium on The Muslim Difference
Patel’s hope is to offer resources for building a “Muslim modernity” from the sources that have sustained the tradition.
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CRISPR-Cas 9, Practical Wisdom, and Human Identity
Practical wisdom is not a panacea, but it may be an important alternative to the idea that all we need to do is apply fixed principles such as individual autonomy to ethical problems that are, at root, the same.
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Catholic Conceptions of Personhood and Gene Editing
Understanding how the Catholic faith community navigates a path between fear of technological overreach and the pursuit of medical advances allows us to see the complexity of the relationship between human identity and genetic intervention.
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Unmasking Neoliberalism’s Invisible Grip: Homo Economicus and the Person in Bioethics
The CRISPR conversation makes clear that bioethics, as it has emerged since the 1980s, is a deeply neoliberal project.
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The Unsettled Morality of Kidney Sales
Despite the religious sanctions afforded by Islamic jurists, selling kidneys in Iran remains socially stigmatized and morally obscure.
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Reading Frankenstein in a Time of Germline Editing
Personal and collective experience shows us that children rightly desire to be received and accepted by their parents as gifts, regardless of their abilities or genetic makeup.
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Muslim Jurists’ Contribution to Islamic Bioethics
How can Muslim jurists gather the necessary information to approach new medical technologies? Interdisciplinary approaches to bioethical ijtihād may come with their own challenges.
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Producing Motherhood? Uterus Transplantation for Infertility
Uterus transplant makes visible the ways in which social expectations and ideas about the normative body interact with the ethical ends of medicine.
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Gender, Religion and IVF
Series: Science and the Human Person
A focus on condemning particular therapies and methods of intervention, or on the limits of individual autonomy, overlooks crucial dimensions of the lived experience of infertility globally.
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As the working group members of Contending Modernities think together how about Catholics and Muslims can work together on issues of bioethics—and with particular reference to how social structures impact and shape these issues—the problem of consumerism looms large. Read the full article »
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