Islamic Bioethics: Institutionalization of Bioethical Deliberations
Islamic Bioethics: Institutionalization of Bioethical Deliberations
- Manfred SingManfred SingLeibniz Institute of European History
Summary
The continuous institutionalization of Islamic bioethics is visible in both a growing amount of literature and an increasing number of experts and committees that deal with ethical and social questions in medicine and the life sciences. Muslim and non-Muslim practitioners in the field like to claim that the growing attention for these issues has already turned Islamic bioethics into a separate discipline. Islamic bioethical deliberations obviously form a conglomeration of different methodological and theoretical approaches, it seems also justified to see Islamic bioethics as a multidimensional inquiry cutting across different disciplines. From this viewpoint, the establishment of Islamic bioethics as an institutionalized field of practice, research, reflection, and teaching remains a continuing challenge.
Subjects
- Islamic Studies
