Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
The CRISPR conversation makes clear that bioethics, as it has emerged since the 1980s, is a deeply neoliberal project.
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Despite the religious sanctions afforded by Islamic jurists, selling kidneys in Iran remains socially stigmatized and morally obscure.
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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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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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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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Decisions to gene edit the environment require a new environmental ethic.
Read More →Rather than fixating on the authority of past authorities and their social imaginaries, the discursive approach negotiates conceptions of the human person by way of historicizing and complexly rereading the tradition.
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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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The field of Neuroscience is changing our understanding of the way we live, move and have our being.
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Despite the combative relationship that some Muslims had with modern science during the colonial period, science still embodies the hope for the “future recovery” of Muslim societies, argues the historian of science Ahmad Dallal.
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