Casuistry, Biomedical Ethics and Law

Biomedical Ethics and the Law

table of lod scores for genes linked to the 22 pairs of autosomes and the Xchromosome, there are a discussion of how cytological markers can be used and a bibliography which provides access to the important literature about cytological markers. Data are given for physical assignments, including both largest and smallest regions of overlap reference numbers to the relevant literature. An alphabe...

Health care ethics and casuistry.

Moral reasoning--the unrealized place of casuistry in medical ethics.

If the practice of ethics consists of the justifiable application of moral principles, then the challenge will always be to ensure, first, that the principles are well chosen and, second, that their application to the case in point is overtly justifiable. In this editorial, having briefly mentioned “principlism”, which itself involves the application of ethical principles in practice, we shall ...

Islam and Biomedical Ethics

Islamic bioethics is in good health, this article argues. During the twentieth century, academic researchers had to deal with a number of difficulties including the scarcity of available Islamic sources. However, the twenty-first century witnessed significant breakthroughs in the field of Islamic bioethics. A growing number of normative works authored by Muslim religious scholars and studies co...

Principles of Biomedical Ethics

In this presentation, I will discuss the principles of biomedical and Islamic medical ethics and an interfaith perspective on end-of-life issues. I will also discuss three cases to exemplify some of the conflicts in ethical decision-making.