Contemporary Approaches to the Qur’an and Sunnah

Description

Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Medicine compares and contrasts Western and Islamic models of bioethics, a little understood but hugely important field in the world of genetics, advanced medicine, and med ical ethics, which has developed over the last few decades into a major field of inquiry. With advances in medicine progressively transforming our understanding of what constitutes life, there is need for a medical ethics to address many of the issues and challenges arising, particularly in genetics and reproduction. This is vital as developments in modern medicine (controversially stem cell research, human cloning, and the right to end life) can lead to potentially harmful practices being legit imized through health care policies into practice, with the general public largely unaware that some powerful lobbying is taking place behind the scenes. What is ethical, and what is not? Who decides and on what basis