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Islamic biomedical ethics : principles and application /
Biomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far-reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theories and applications (utilitarianism, deontology, teleology, and the like), Islamic biomedical ethics has yet to find its na...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Biomedical ethics is a burgeoning academic field with complex and far-reaching consequences. Whereas in Western secular bioethics this subject falls within larger ethical theories and applications (utilitarianism, deontology, teleology, and the like), Islamic biomedical ethics has yet to find its natural academic home in Islamic studies. In this pioneering work, Abdulaziz Sachedina - a scholar with life-long academic training in Islamic law - relates classic Muslim religious values to the new ethical challenges that arise from medical research and practice. He depends on Muslim legal theory, b. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-272) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199702848 0199702845 9780199860234 0199860238 0199888612 9780199888610 9786612053955 661205395X 1282053957 9781282053953 |